"I'd rather die Maid, and lead apes in Hell Than wed an inmate of Silenus' Cell."
— Marriage

January 1, 1970

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Richard Brathwait, English Gentelman and Gentelwoman (1640), in a supplemental tract, The Turtle's Triumph. Phrase "lead apes in hell" found in his Drunken Barnaby's Journal. Bessy Bell. Massinger, City Madam, Act II, scene 2. Shirley, School of Compliments (1637).