Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight?

from Hero and Leander

It lies not in our power to love, or hate,

For will in us is over-rulde by fate.

When two are stript long ere the course begin,

We wish that one should lose, the other win.

And one especially doo we affect,

Of two gold Ingots like in each respect,

The reason no man knowes, let it suffise,

What we behold is censur'd by our eyes.

Where both deliberat, the love is slight,

Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama. He is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. In a playwriting career that spanned little more than six years, Marlowe’s achievements were diverse and splendid. On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed by Ingram Frizer, in the dubious company of Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley, at a lodging house in Deptford, outside London, where they had spent most of the day and where, it was alleged, a fight had broken out between them over the bill.

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