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Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696.


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“As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.”

Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act II (1696).

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“We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”

Colley Cibber Love's Last Shift

Love's Last Shift, Act IV (1696). Compare: "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd", William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III, scene viii (often paraphrased: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned").

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