“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd
For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”

— John Dryden

Theodore and Honoria, line 227.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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