Mermaid Series - The Best Plays of Thomas Otway

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“Say that it is the serenade
Of a man that plays a blue guitar.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
and scape forth, since liberty is lever.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

“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)