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  • 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.

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