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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, :Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you ; :Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, :Styled but the shadows of us men?
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, :Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you ; :Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, :Styled but the shadows of us men?
Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
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- Ben Jonson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1573–1637)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 900 · quotation 9 · Ben Jonson · The Forest. Song. That Women are but Men's Shadows.
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