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“Thou hast prevaricated with thy friend,
By underhand contrivances undone me:
And while my open nature trusted in thee,
Thou hast slept in between me and my hopes,
And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear.
Thou hast betray'd me.”

Nicholas Rowe

Lady Jane Grey (1715), Act II, scene 1, line 235.

“At length the morn and cold indifference came.”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Act i, scene 1. Compare: "But with the morning cool reflection came", Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv. Scott also quotes this in his notes to "The Monastery", chapter iii, note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary", chapter v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy", chapter xii.
The Fair Penitent (1703)

“Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Act v, scene 1.
The Fair Penitent (1703)

“Your bounty is beyond my speaking;
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.”

Nicholas Rowe

Jane Shore (1714), Act II, scene 1.

“And one false step entirely damns her fame.
In vain with tears the loss she may deplore,
In vain look back on what she was before;
She sets like stars that fall, to rise no more.”

Nicholas Rowe

Jane Shore (1714), Act I.

“As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Prologue. Compare: "None think the great unhappy, but the great", Edward Young, The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.
The Fair Penitent (1703)