“Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

"No Difference i' th' Dark".
Hesperides (1648)

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17th-century English poet and cleric 1591–1674

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