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The youth, who pants to gain the amorous prize,
Forgets that Heaven with all-discerning eyes
Surveys the secret heart; and when desire
Has, in possession, quenched its short-lived fire,
The devious winds aside each promise bear,
And scatter all his solemn vows in air!

— John Hoole Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

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'Tis often constancy to change the mind.

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But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.

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For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.

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And Neptune's white herds low above the wave.

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