When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

1636 Maidenhead Berkshire – c. 10 May 1692 Paris [1]) was an English dramatist. At this time Etherege was living a life no less frivolous and unprincipled than those of his Courtals and Freemans.

Sir George Etherege (c. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub in 1664 She Would if She Could in 1668 and The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.