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Wikipedia Summary for John Harington
Sir John Harington (baptised 4 August 1560 – 20 November 1612), of Kelston, Somerset, England, but baptised in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. He became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and other writings caused him to fall in and out of favour with the Queen. The description of a flush-toilet forerunner installed in his Kelston house appears in A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), a political allegory and coded attack on the monarchy, which is nowadays his best-known work.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing, -- True but for lying, -- honest but for stealing, -- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
Best fishing in troubled waters.
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.