Pious Selinda goes to Pray’rs, If I but ask the Favour;And yet the tender Fool’s in Tears, When she believes I’ll leave her.Wou’d I were free from Restraint, Or else had Hopes to win her;Wou’d she cou’d make of me a Saint, Or I of her a Sinner.
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William Congreve was a 17th-century British playwright, poet and colonial administrator. William Congreve was an English playwright, satirist and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period. Read more on Wikipedia →