Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Stephen Harvey (circa 1627): Juvenal, Satire ix.

May I govern my passion with absolute sway,

And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

Walter Pope (1630-1714): The Old Man's Wish.

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When change itself can give no more,

'T is easy to be true.

Charles Sedley (1639-1701): Reasons for Constancy.

The real Simon Pure.

Susannah Centlivre (1667-1723): A bold Stroke for a Wife.