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Hamlet · 1616
Hamlet · 1616
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.
Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr · 1669
Hamlet · 1616
For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest.
Seven Against Thebes · 467 BC
Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death Ere death dare come to us?
Antony and Cleopatra · 1607
Children of Hercules · 430 BC
Antigone · 442 BC
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
Paradise Regained · 1671
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery · 1680
The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery · 1680
Hippolytus · 428 BC
The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron · 1608
The Orphan · 1680
Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
The Death of Wallenstein · 1798
Julius Caesar · 1599
I prefer to be unskilled rather than practised in the lore of foretelling ill.
The Suppliants · 465 BC
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.
Titus Andronicus · 1594