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• The glory of the spoil A son of Jove shall boast:” and dreading sore Around his orchards massy walls he rears A dragon huge and fierce the guard maintains Whatever strangers to his realm approach Far thence he drives; and thus to Perseus too Haste, quickly haste from hence, lest soon I prove Thy glorious deeds but feign'd,--feign'd as thy birth Then force to threats he added,--strove to thrust The hero forth; who struggling, efforts urg'd Resisting, while he begg'd with softening words Proving in strength inferior (who in strength Could vie with Atlas?) —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• But there is a certain romantic senseless kind of love, such as poets sometimes celebrate, and men and women feign, which is a legitimate target for ridicule. —  The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
• Such when I meant to feign, and wished to see, My Muse bade, BEDFORD write, and that was She Milton had many qualities and tastes fitting him to be the delight of female society, and to delight in it. —  The Friendships of Women
• And there is only that way, that I told you of, to find it out That I should mix with them--feign to be one of them!" —  Oddsfish!
• To them, therefore, I had to feign feigning: I had to feign, that is, that I was feigning to keep their confidence, but that in reality that I was betraying it; while to Mr. Chiffinch I had to disclose these precious secrets not as true but as false, and conjecture with him what was the truth. —  Oddsfish!

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