Careful Words

betray (v.)

Knowing that Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,

And finds too late that men betray,

What charm can soothe her melancholy?

What art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxiv.