"Beneath the sable veil’s disguise, Had you not hid your killing eyes, It had been worse for me. My Nun had then appear’d like Jove, I had been light’ning-struck for love, And died like Semele."
Semele

January 1, 1970

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The Wife of Bath (1713), act 4

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