There are three things a wise man will not trust:
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.
Madoc. R. SOUTHEY.
Who trusts himself to woman or to waves
Should never hazard what he fears to lose.
Governor of Cyprus. J. OLDMIXON.
Away, away—you're all the same,
A flattering, smiling, jilting throng!
O, by my soul, I burn with shame,
To think I've been your slave so long!
Song. T. MOORE.
Frailty, thy name is woman!
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
HAMLET.—Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
OPHELIA.—'Tis brief, my lord.
HAMLET.—As woman's love.
Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Framed to make women false.
Othello, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.
Othello, Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEAKE.
Or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears;—why she, even she
(O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason
Would have mourned longer) married with my uncle,
My father's brother.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.