purgatory quotes

There is no other purgatory but a woman.

- Francis and Fletcher,John Beaumont
c.1610  The Scornful Lady (published1616), act 3.

England istheparadise of women, thepurgatoryof men, and the hell of horses.

-John Florio
Second Frutes, ch.12.

: What do you think of marriage? : I take't, as those that deny purgatory, It locally contains or heaven, or hell; There's no third place in't.

-John Webster
     DUCHESSANTONIO1623  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.2.