“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.”

— John Dryden

Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
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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