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He is a noble gentleman; withal
Happy in his endeavours: the general voice
Sounds him for courtesy, behaviour, language,
And every fair demeanour, an example:
Titles of honour add not to his worth;
Who is himself an honour to his title.

— John Ford The Lady's Trial (1638)

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Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

The Lady's Trial (1638)

Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.

Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.

The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

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