Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
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A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness,
Or other interesting beast of prey,
Are similes at hand for the distress
Of ladies who cannot have their own way.

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Demons in act, but gods at least in face.

Demons in act, but gods at least in face.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.