• Rolando@lemmy.worldOP
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    • “O gentle Aaron, we are all vndone. / Now helpe, or woe betide thee euermore.” -shakespeare
    • “Woe betide the Subſcribers, their Children and Wives, / This Action ſhall coſt 'em five hundred Folks Lives.” -w.pittis
    • "“God save us!” cried the captain, / “For naught can man avail; / Oh, woe betide the ship that lacks / Her rudder and her sail![”] -jg whittier

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