But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with h… - John Webster

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But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.

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John Webster (c. 1580 – c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

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Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near have neither heat nor light.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.

But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again. - John Webster

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