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It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.
But scandal's my aversion--I protest
Against all evil speaking, even in jest.
But scandal's my aversion--I protest
Against all evil speaking, even in jest.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
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.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
You may be on land, yet not in a garden.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto
those that be of heavy hearts.
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto
those that be of heavy hearts.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
Power seldome grows old at Court.
