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Behold destruction, frenzy, and amazement,
Like witless antics, one another meet.

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Be factious for redress of all these griefs;
And I will set this foot of mine as far,
As who goes farthest.

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Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd,

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As bending angels; that's their fame in peace:

But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,

Good arms, strong joints, true swords; and Jove's

accord,

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Cruel are the times, when we are traitors,

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And do not know ourselves: when we hold rumour

From what we fear, yet know not what we fear;

But float upon a wild and violent sea,

Each way, and move.

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Great promotions

Are daily given, to ennoble those

That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.

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We hear this fearful tempest sing,

Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm;

We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,

And yet we strike not, but securely perish.

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The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,

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May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two

Guiltier than him they try: What's open made to

justice,

That justice seizes. What know the laws,

That thieves do pass on thieves?

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If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye,
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested,
Appear before us?

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We must not make a scare-crow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,

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And let it keep one shape, till custom make it

Their perch, and not their terror.

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We see which way the stream of time doth run,

And are enforced from our most quiet sphere

By the rough torrent of occasion.

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Contention, like a horse,

Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,

And bears down all before him.

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The tag, whose rage doth rend

Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear

What they are used to bear.

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Tiger-footed rage, when it shall find

The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too late,

Tie leaden pounds to his heels.

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The present time's so sick,

That present medicine must be minister'd,

Or overthrow incurable ensues.

O conspiracy!

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Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,

When evils are most free? O, then, by day,

Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough

To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;

Hide it in smiles and affability":

For if thou put thy native semblance on,

Not Erebus himself were dim enough

To hide thee from prevention.

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Diseases, desperate grown,

By desperate appliance are relieved,

Or not at all.

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Such is the infection of the time,

That, for the health and physic of our right,

We cannot deal but with the very hand

Of stern injustice and confused wrong.

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If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,

'Twill come,

Humanity must perforce prey on itself,

Like monsters of the deep.

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Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands, Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates

Have here delivered me to my sour cross,

And water cannot wash away your sin.

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These growing feathers, pluck'd from Cæsar's wing,

Will make him fly an ordinary pitch:

Who else would soar above the view of men,

And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

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Before him

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He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.

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When first this order was ordain'd,

Knights of the garter were of noble birth;

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Valiant, and virtuous, full of haughty courage,

Such as were grown to credit by the wars;

Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,
But always resolute in most extremes.

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The horn and noise o' the monsters.

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Our fathers' minds are dead,

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And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;

Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.

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Authority bears a credent bulk,

That no particular scandal once can touch,

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But it confounds the breather.

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Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness;

Or whether that the body public be

A horse, whereon the governor doth ride,

Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
He can command, lets it straight feel the spur :

Whether the tyranny be in his place,

Or in his eminence that fills it up,

I stagger in.

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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: were he meal'd

With that which he corrects, then were he tyran

[nous;

But this being so, he's just.

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What his high hatred would effect, wants not
A minister in his power: You know his nature,
That he's revengeful; and I know, his sword
Hath a sharp edge: it's long, and, it may be said,
It reaches far; and where 'twill not extend,
Thither he darts it.

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When he speaks not like a citizen, You find him like a soldier: Do not take His rougher accents for malicious sounds, But, as I say, such as become a soldier, Rather than envy you.

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He bore him in the thickest troop,

As doth a lion in a herd of neat :

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Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs;
Who having pinch'd a few, and made them cry,
The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.

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I do not think, a braver gentleman,

More active-valiant, or more valiant-young,

More daring, or more bold, is now alive,

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To grace this latter age with noble deeds. 18-v. 1.

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In speech, in gait,

In diet, in affections of delight,

In military rules, humours of blood,

He was the mark and glass, copy and book,

That fashion'd others.

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He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath, indeed, better bettered expectation.

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In war was never lion raged more fierce,
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild.

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He, in his blaze of wrath, subscribes
To tender objects; but he, in heat of action,
Is more vindicative than jealous love.

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