Roger L'Estrange

“ Nothing so sharp sighted in Other Matters, but it throws a Mist before the Eyes on't. It puts the Philosopher beside his Latin; and to summ up All in a Little, where This Passion Domineers, neither Honour, nor Vir-tue, is able to stand before it. The Lyon's Parting with his Teeth, and his Clawes, in a Complement to his New Mistress, is no more then what we see Every Day Exemplify’d in the case of making over Eslates and Joyntures, with the Malice Prepense all this While, of holding their Noses to the Grindstone, and with the Girles Father here, of Jilting them at last. ”

“ Here's a Beast in Love with a Virgin; which is but a Reverse of the Prcposterous Passions we meet with Frequently in the World, when Reasonable Creatures of Both Sexes fall in love with Those, that in the Allusion may (allmost without a Figure) pass for Beasts. There’s Nothing so Fierce, or so Savage, but Love will Soften it ”