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." External links The Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom... (London: printed for Ric. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, and B. Walford, 1696) Category:Novelists from England