“From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.”

— Thomas Middleton

A Trick to catch the Old One (1605), Act i. Sc. 2. Compare: "Some undone widow sits upon mine arm", Philip Massinger, A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.

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English playwright and poet 1580–1627

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