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Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou

keep'st,

Hourly afflict. Thou art by no means valiant;

For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork

Of a poor worm: thy best of rest is sleep,

And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st

Thy death, which is no more. SHAKSPEARE: Measure for Measure.

LIFE AND DEATH.

AY, but to die, and go we know not where,

To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot:

This sensible warm motion to become

A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit

To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice;

To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,

And blown with restless violence round about

The pendent world; or to be worse than worst

Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts

Imagine howling!-'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life,

That age, ache, penury, and impris

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