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His life is parallel’d Even with the stroke and line of his great justice; He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself, which he spurs on his power To qualify in others; where he meal’d With that which he corrects, than where he tyrannous; But this being so, he’s just.
His life is parallel’d Even with the stroke and line of his great justice; He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself, which he spurs on his power To qualify in others; where he meal’d With that which he corrects, than where he tyrannous; But this being so, he’s just.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Shakspere (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 339 · printed citation: Shakspere · subject: JUSTICE
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