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When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

— Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

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I called the world mad, and the world called me mad, and they outvoted me.

’T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.

The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!

The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

As man; false man, smiling destructive man.

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That ’t is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.

The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

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