A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes and Corrections, Volume 10Septimus Prowett, 1827 |
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Page 256 - And gives them strength to strike him. Were it less Than what it is, my guilt would make it serve : A wicked man's own shadow has distracted him. Were this a business now to save an honour, As 'tis to spoil one, I would pass this then, Stuck all hell's horrors i
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