Bussy d'Ambois.
His philosophical work Euthymiae and Raptus was composed around the same time as Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, while The Ball and The Tragedie of Chabot were written with James Shirley. Early success came with comedies like The Gentleman Usher, but he and Jonson were imprisoned after it was determined that Eastward Hoe was anti-Scottish. Beginning his career with the poems The Shadow of Night and Ovid's Banquet of Sense, his memorable line "Man is a torch borne in the wind" come from a 1607 work about a French soldier of fortune: Bussy d'Ambois. FTP identify this British author who made his name by finishing Marlowe's Hero and Leander and translating Homer.
His philosophical work Euthymiae and Raptus was composed around the same time as Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron, while The Ball and The Tragedie of Chabot were written with James Shirley.
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