“Virtue may be assail’d, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthrall’d; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.” Comus. William Fletcher was the son of a respectable country gentleman of Suffolk, in England, and the destined heir of his uncle, Sir William Fletcher, an eminent lawyer, who had employed his talents with such effective zeal and pliant principle, that he had won his way to courtly favour and secured a courtly fortune.…
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