“Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That ’t is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.”

—  Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens

Act i., Sc. 3.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

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