Mermaid Series - The Best Plays of Thomas Otway

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“The best is the enemy of the good.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“[Allegory] should ... be very sparingly practised, lest, whilst the writer plays with his own fancies and diverts himself by cutting the air with his wide spread wings, he should soar out of view of his readers, leaving them in confusion and perplexity to explore his viewless track.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Happy a while in Paradise they lay;
But quickly woman longed to go astray:
Some foolish new adventure needs must prove,
And the first devil she saw, she chang’d her love:
To his temptations, lewdly she inclined
Her soul, and, for an apple, damn’d mankind.”
—Thomas Otway (1652–1685)