Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley Modern

Romantic poet

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From 'Notes on Queen Mab', Note VII

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1813

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2450/2450-h/2450-h.htm#link2H_4_0007

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