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01c. 1590 AD

His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder.

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02c. 1590 AD

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

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03c. 1590 AD

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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04c. 1590 AD

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity.

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05c. 1590 AD

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!"

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06c. 1590 AD

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.

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07c. 1590 AD

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

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08c. 1590 AD

That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.

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09c. 1590 AD

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't.

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10c. 1590 AD

Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead.

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11c. 1590 AD

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

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12c. 1590 AD

In them Nature's copy 's not eterne.

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13c. 1590 AD

All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

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14c. 1590 AD

'T is a fault to Heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd.

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15c. 1590 AD

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.

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16c. 1590 AD

Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I 'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre, Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again. What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?

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17c. 1590 AD

I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine: But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!

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18c. 1590 AD

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

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19c. 1590 AD

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

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20c. 1590 AD

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

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21c. 1590 AD

'T is not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature.

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22c. 1590 AD

Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

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23c. 1590 AD

Nature is fine in love, and where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.

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24c. 1590 AD

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

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