「Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not nature's hand keep the wild flood confined! Let order die and darkness be the burier of the dead!」
「Wake not the sleeping wolf. → To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox.」
「It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.」
「Such things become the hatch and brood of time.」
「A man can die but once. We owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't be my destiny, so. An't be not, so. He that dies this year is quit for the next.」
「O majesty, when thou dost pinch thy bearer thou dost sit like a rich armour worn in the heat of day, that scalds with safety.」
「Wherefore did you take away the crown?
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God witness with me, when I found no course of breath within your Majesty, how cold it struck my heart. I spake unto this crown as having sense, and thus upbraided it: "The care on thee depending hath fed upon the body of my father. Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold. Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, but thou, most fine, most honoured, most renowned, hast eat thy bearer up." Thus, my most royal liege, accusing it, I put it on my head, to try with it, as with an enemy that had before my face murdered my father.」
「How I came by this crown, o God forgive, and grant it may with thee, in true peace live.」
「You all look strangely on me and you most. You are, I think, assured I love you not.
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I am assured, if I be measured rightly, your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.
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No? How might a prince of my great hopes forget so great indignities you laid upon me?
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I then did use the person of your father. The image of his power lay then on me. Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours, be now the father and propose a son, hear your own dignity so much profaned, see your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, behold yourself so by a son disdained and then imagine me taking your part and in your power soft silencing your son.
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You're right, Justice, and you weigh this well. Therefore still bear the balance and the sword.」
「For competence of life I will allow you, the lack of means enforce you not to evil. And, as we hear you do reform yourselves, we will, according to your strengths and qualities, give you advancement.」
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