‘Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff’s Charge. B
‘Nay, if we part so, let me die like a Bird upon a Bough, at the Sheriff’s Charge. By Heaven, both the Indies shall not buy thee from me. I adore thy Humour and will marry thee, and we are so of one Humour, it must be a Bargain - give me thy Hand …. And now let the blind ones (Love and Fortune) do their worst’.~ Willmore to Hellena in The Rover Act V, Scene IThe play was written by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), influential playwright and an all-round remarkable woman.–Aphra Behn, The Rover. Or, The banish’t cavaliers … London: printed for John Amery, at the Peacock, against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street, 1677, Alexander Turnbull Library, REng BEHN Rover 1677. -- source link
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