“My fair one, let us swear
An eternal friendship.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Act IV, sc. i
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
Source: Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), p. 257: Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers
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