please your eye and plague your heart
- please your eye and plague your heart
c 1617 A. BREWER Lovesick King (1655) III. E3v She may please your eye a little..but vex your heart.
1748 SMOLLETT Roderick Random II. xl. Many a substantial farmer..would be glad to marry her; but she was resolved to please her eye, if she should plague her heart.
1829 COBBETT Advice to Young Men III. cxxic. ‘Please your eye and plague your heart’ is an adage that want of beauty invented, I dare say, more than a thousand years ago.
1876 I. BANKS Manchester Man III. vi. But I will marry him, mamma—I’ll please my eye, if I plague my heart.
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