John Marston Quotes
Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.
Marston, John. The Malcontent. V.S. for William Aspley, 1604.
On January 29, 1895 the Brass King, Koko, and 1000 warriors attacked the British trading station. The destroyed the harbor and docks and took many employees of the British Niger Company back to Brass as prisoners. The Niger Company had taken over the middleman trade that the Brassmen had previously enjoyed and had other grievances with the company. In a celebration of the victory, most of the company employee prisoners were eaten. See Koko’s later apology.
John Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary.
