16th century English playwright and poet (British).. English
poet and playwright; called "Bard of Avon" and England's
national poet They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others,
are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And husband nature's
riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their
faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's
flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and
die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest
weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by
their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.