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PROS. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow!
William Shakespeare • The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
T.S. Eliot • The Essential T.S. Eliot
Talk of misfortunes and misfortunes will come.
Lady Gregory • Seven Short Plays
people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory • New Irish Comedies
Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Living (p.57)
“Nature has, in her eyes, no law, no uniformity.”
Another precedent can be found in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (1775), one of the most popular plays of the century (and mentioned in Mansfield Park): its upper-class heroine is so entranced by the illicit elopements found in novels that her lover is forced to disguise himself as an illicit poor suitor in order to win her affection.