“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.”
Section 2, member 1, subsection 2, How Love tyranniseth over men. Love, or Heroical Melancholy, his definition, part affected.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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