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1. "You have sent me a Flanders mare" was said about Anne of Cleves by whom?
2. A US writer once said of whom, "He was not a learned man, but an ignorant; not an honourable man, but a professional pirate"?
3. "He lived a hypocrite and died a traitor" was said by John Foster, a British Historian, about whom?
4. Which English poet proposed an epitaph for his wife that read, "Here lies my wife, here let her lie. Now she's at rest and so am I"?
5. Of which English monarch was it once said, "As just and merciful as Nero and as good a Christian as Mohammed"?
6. About whom was it said, "The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England"?
7. Of Christopher Marlowe, the English playwright, who was it that said, "It is not suprising to learn that Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern brawl; what would be utterly unbelievable would be his having succeeded in stabbing anyone else"?
8. "The most notorious whore in all the world". About whom did Peter Wentworth, an English MP, say this?
9. Who, according to an anonymous critic, was "An inventor of filthiness"?
10. About whom, at his trial in 1603, was it said, "Thou art an odious fellow, thy name is hateful to all the realm of England"?
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