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John Lyly, “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1578],” in Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & his England (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1916), 156:
He that hath no motion of God in his mind, no feeling of the Spirit, no taste of heavenly things, no remorse in conscience, no spark of zeal is rather to be confounded by torments than reasons.
Paolo Mantegazza, The Book of Love (New York: American-Neo-latin Library, 1917), ch. XVII, The Hell of Love, 186-189: Pain, so rich in affl...