Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | | NUMBER: | 1826 | AUTHOR: | Sir John Harington (1560?1612) | QUOTATION: | Treason doth never prosper, whats the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. | ATTRIBUTION: | SIR JOHN HARINGTON, Of Treason, The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington
, ed. Norman E. McClure, book 4, epigram 5, p. 255 (1977). The complete edition of his epigrams was published in 1618. | SUBJECTS: | Treason | |
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