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| | Sir Philip Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | This epic hero, poet, statesman, soldier, and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth, was endowed to the highest degree with the human virtues. |
 | | Given command of a force in the Netherlands by the Queen, he was shot in the thigh by a musket ball on September 22, 1586, while trying to intercept a convoy of provisions for the enemy during the Battle of Zutphen. |
 | | Though a prey to burning thirst, he refused, in favour of a dying soldier, a cup of water that was brought to him, saying: "Thy need is greater than mine". |
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