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Thomas Otway

1651 AD — 1685 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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01c. 1668 AD

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There 's in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

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02c. 1668 AD

Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee.

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03c. 1668 AD

And die with decency.

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04c. 1668 AD

What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?—A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

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05c. 1668 AD

Let us embrace, and from this very moment, vow an eternal misery together.

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06Undated

If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

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