“Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.”

The Malcontent, Act III, sc. iv. (1603-04)

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English writer 1576–1634

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