“ Love is a familiar; Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. ”
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (1598). copy citation
Author | William Shakespeare |
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Source | Love's Labour's Lost |
Topic | evil love |
Date | 1598 |
Language | English |
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Note | Written between 1595 and 1596 |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1109/pg1109-images.html |
Context
“I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn- which is a great argument of falsehood- if I love. And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club, and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.”
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