Patience perforce

Patience perforce, with wilfull choler meeting,
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting:
I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet, conuert to bitter gall.

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English poet and intellectual, author of "Paradise Lost," considered the greatest epic poem in the English language.

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