Richard Johnson (16th-century writer)

Richard Johnson (c. 1573 – c. 1659) was an English romance writer. All that is known of his biography is from internal evidence in his works: he was a London apprentice in the 1590s, and a freeman after 1600.

Quotes

  • Deaths pale flags advanced in his Cheeks.
    • Seven Champions (ed. 1696), pt. 3, ch. 11. Reported in Hoyt's (1922), p. 176: "Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks."
      Cf. Romeo and Juliet, act 5, sc. 3: "Beauty's ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death's pale flag is not advanced there."
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