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Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
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.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at
him.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at
him.
Let the worst come to the worst.
Let the worst come to the worst.
We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.