rake quotes

A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logyk hadde longe ygo. As leene was his hors as is a rake.

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.285^7.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To a Lady', l.215^8.

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