“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”

— John Dryden , book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”