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Earth has no Rage

By JAS. CROSSLEY. (Manchester)

"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd." These are the concluding lines of Act III. of Congreve's *Mourning Bride*. They stand, however, thus, in the edition to which I have referred: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd."

Topics: Literature, Victorian Poetry