Condemn you me for that the duke did love me? So may you bl… - John Webster

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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.

John Webster

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

'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

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 him… - John Webster

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