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Lewis Theobald

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None but himself can be his parallel.
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Double Falsehood; or The Distrest Lovers (1727). Compare: "Qu?ris Alcid? parem? Nemo est nisi ipse" (translated: "Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself"), Seneca, Hercules Furens, i. 1; 84.

 
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