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"The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward."
John Tobin / The Honeymoon. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Honeymoon. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain