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Date: 1666
"Slow as a Drug, that in the body lies, / Our Phansy works; yours, like a Spirit, flyes"
preview | full record— Killigrew, Sir William (bap. 1606, d. 1695)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"O self-destroying Monster! that art blind, / Yet putt'st out Reason's Eyes, that still shou'd guide thee, / Then plungest down some Precipice unseen, / And art no more!--Hear me, all-gracious Heav'n!"
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: First performed February 17, 1720.
"It wounds my Heart / To think thou follow'st but to share my Ruin."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
