Tancred, Prince of Salerno, slayeth his daughter's lover and sendeth her his heart in a bowl of gold; whereupon, pouring poisoned water over it, she drinketh thereof and dieth.
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (Fourth Day, First Story)
The Yellow Wallpaper
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Valdes, sweet Valdes, and Cornelius, Know that your words have won me at the last To practice magic and concealèd arts. Philosophy is odious and obscure. Both law and physic are for petty wits, Divinity is basest of the three— Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile. ’Tis magic, magic, that hath ravished me!”
— The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe