“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”

Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714).

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eighteenth century English poet 1688–1744

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“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”