“O! what's a table richly spread
Without a woman at its head!”
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) English literary historian, critic, poet
"The Progress of Discontent" (1750), line 39.
“For what's a play without a woman in it?”
— Thomas Kyd, book The Spanish Tragedy
Act IV, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
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