We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were …

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We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo ✨ William Shakespeare (1771). The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.]., p.78
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