| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11387 |
| QUOTATION: | I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910). Archbishop of Cologne, in Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, act 1, sc. 2, l. 208-9 (1654).
on the proposal to make Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor. The ascription of the play to Chapman has been questioned. |
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