“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

—  Thomas Otway, The Orphan

The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.

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English writer 1652–1685

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