She Is A Woman, Therefore May Be Woo'd; She Is A Woman, Therefore May Be Wo

She Is A Woman, Therefore May Be Woo'd; She Is A Woman, Therefore May Be Wo

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She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won;
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
What, man! more water glideth by the mill
Than wots the miller of;
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Titus Andronicus
-- Act ii, Sc. 1

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