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Page 221 - We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us
Page 219 - this evenhanded justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murder shut the door. Not bear the knife myself.
Page 323 - “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head,” “And yet, by heaven,! think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.”
Page 215 - Second Murderer. I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd that I am reckless what I do to spite the world First Murderer. And I another So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it or be rid on't
Page 221 - of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting Ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other
Page 323 - what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. 0, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow When thou hold'st up thy hand. 0, let me kiss This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!”
Page 215 - which held you So under fortune, which you thought had been Our innocent self. This 1 made good to you in our last conference, pass'd in probation with you, How you were borne in hand, how cross'd, the instruments, Who wrought with them, and all things else that might
Page 397 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere.
Page 221 - How now, my Lord! why do you keep alone, Of sorriest fancies your companions making, Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? Things without all remedy Should be without regard; what's done is done
Page 219 - in these cases We still have judgment here; that we hut teach Bloody instructions, which being taught return To plague the inventor: this evenhanded justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his