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  • He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.

    -John Donne
    c.1595^1605  'Break of Day', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

  •    The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

    -John Webster
      The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.

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