O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we h… - Thomas Otway

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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There ’s in you all that we believe of heaven,—
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

Thomas Otway

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Thomas Otway (March 3, 1652 – April 14, 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period.

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And die with decency.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol?—A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

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

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