Date: 1810
"Hence are his senses to his reason subject."
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Date: 1594
"There is enough written upon this earth / To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts."
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Date: 1597
"Or my true heart with treacherous revolt / Turn to another, this shall slay them both."
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Date: 1597
"My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, / And all this day an unaccustomed spirit / Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
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Date: 1597
"Hath Bolingbroke / Deposed thine intellect?"
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Date: 1598
"But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool, / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop."
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Date: 1598
"But let one spirit of the first-born Cain / Reign in all bosoms, that each heart being set / On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, / And darkness be the burier of the dead!"
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Date: 1600
"So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, / Ere I will yield my virgin patent up / Unto his lordship whose unwishèd yoke / My soul consents not to give sovereignty."
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Date: 1600
"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree"
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Date: 1600
"How smooth and even they do bear themselves, / As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, / Crownèd with faith and constant loyalty."
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