“Green indiscretion, flattery of greatness,
Rawness of judgement, wilfulness in folly,
Thoughts vagrant as the wind, and as uncertain.”

—  John Ford (dramatist), The Broken Heart

Act II, sc. ii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

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