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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.


Edmund Waller


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During the worst period of his exile Waller managed to "keep a table"[clarification needed] for the Royalists in Paris although in order to do so he was obliged to sell his wife's jewels. In about 1635 he met Lady Dorothy Sidney eldest daughter of Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester who was then eighteen years of age. "


"Waller's Plot"
An extraordinary and obscure conspiracy against Parliament in favour of the king which is known as "Waller's Plot" occupied the spring of 1643 but on 30 May he and his friends were arrested.

Edmund Waller FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.

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