William Congreve

Titles in Drama category:

• Love for Love    

  The husbandman in vain renews his toil
  To cultivate each year a hungry soil;
  And fondly hopes for rich and generous fruit,
  When what should feed the tree devours the root;
  Th' unladen boughs, he sees, bode certain dearth,
  Unless transplanted to more kindly earth.
  So the ...

• Way of the World, The    

  Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst,
  Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst:
  For they're a sort of fools which fortune makes,
  And, after she has made 'em fools, forsakes.
  With Nature's oafs 'tis quite a diff'rent case,
  For Fortune favours all her id ...