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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