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Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow,
The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!
Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phœbus did avow
He would be coy, and would not love at all;
Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,
Than love united to a jealous thought.

— Robert Greene

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

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Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

Alcida (1617)

A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

Alphonsus (1590)

My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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Men when they lust can many fancies feign.

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