“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”

— John Dryden, book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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