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Page 123 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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Page 157 - I'll ne'er bear a base mind: — an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: No man's too good to serve his prince ; and, let it go which way it will, he that dies this year, is quit for the next.
Page 402 - Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.
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Page 130 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
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| Title | Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes, Volume 3 Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Authors | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough |
| Publisher | J. Stockdale, 1790 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Dec 28, 2006 |
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