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Updated: June 13, 2025

Thence he passes to one of those satires on women in which the fifteenth century delighted, so bitter, that when Thomas Harvey came to translate it in 1656 he felt constrained, for his credit's sake, to add the note, 'What the author meant of all, the translater intends only of ill women . There follows the old complaint of the niggardliness of rich patrons towards poor poets, and a satire on the luxury of city life.

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England

I shouldn't wonder if he brought the beast round yet." Which, for his credit's sake, the Squire devoutly hoped he might. But, after all, he had his reward when Amabel, sobbing with joy, flung her arms round him, and cried, "Oh, you dear, darling, GOOD daddy! How I love you and how the white horse loves you!"

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Jan of the Windmill