Thomas Overbury citations

“In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.”

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Thomas Overbury A Wife

A Wife, stanza 36. Compare: "In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too late that comes to be denied", Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Lady’s Resolve (1713).

“He disdains all things above his reach, and preferreth all countries above his own.”

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Thomas Overbury

Miscellaneous Works: An Affectate Traveller.

“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”

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Thomas Overbury

The Just Downfall of Ambition, Adultery and Murder.