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I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
The first blow is as much as two.
The first blow is as much as two.
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
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.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you
occupied.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you
occupied.
