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But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Great paines quickly find ease.
Great paines quickly find ease.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Common report is not always wrong.
Common report is not always wrong.
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.
