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An Idle youth, a needy Age.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.
Hee that is throwne would ever wrestle.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
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.
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Patience is sorrow's salve.