A quotation from Nicholas Rowe

CALISTA: That I must die! it is my only Comfort;
   Death is the Privilege of human Nature,
   And Life without it were not worth our taking;
   Thither the Poor, the Pris’ner, and the Mourner,
   Fly for Relief, and lay their Burthens down.

Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) English poet and dramatist
The Fair Penitent, Act 5, sc. 1, l. 137ff (1703)


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