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

— Thomas Otway Venice Preserv'd (1682)

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

The Orphan (1680)

Give but an Englishman his whore and ease,
Beef and a sea-coal fire, he's yours forever.

Venice Preserv'd (1682)

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

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

Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

The Orphan (1680)

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