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A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.