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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.


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Eastward Ho (1605) written with Jonson and John Marston contained satirical. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia. His plays show a willingness to experiment with dramatic form: An Humorous Day's Mirth was one of the first plays to be written in the style of 'humours comedy' which Ben Jonson later used in Every Man in his Humour and Every Man Out of his Humour.

He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist translator and poet.

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