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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety....
• She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.
  -- John Tobin (1770-1804) -- The Honeymoon, Act iii, Sc. 4...
• If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills My father feeds his flock
  a frugal swain, Whose constant cares were to increase his store, And keep his only son, myself, at home....
• Bless the hand that gave the blow. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Spanish Friar, Act ii, Sc. 1
• See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet -- Act ii, Sc. 2...
• There shall be no love lost. -- Ben Jonson (1573-1637) -- Every Man out of his Humour, Act ii, Sc.
  1...
• T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- The Beggar's Opera, Act i, Sc. 1...
• A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Comedy of Errors -- Act v, Sc. 1...