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• Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
  -- Thomas Morton (1764-1838) -- A Cure for the Heartache, Act v, Sc. 2...
• What will Mrs. Grundy say? -- Thomas Morton (1764-1838) -- Speed the Plough, Act i, Sc. 1
• Hit the nail on the head. -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Love's Cure, Act ii, Sc. 1
• Turn over a new leaf. -- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) -- The Honest Whore, Part ii, Act ii, Sc. 1
• Pity 's akin to love. -- Thomas Southerne (1660-1746) -- Oroonoka, Act ii, Sc. 1
• As the case stands. -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Old Law, Act ii, Sc. 1
• Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Love's Cure, Act ii, Sc.
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• Egregiously an ass. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1
• How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!
  -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's, Act ii, Sc. 1...