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“O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions hell, If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, To flaming youth let virtue be as wax, And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame When the compulsive ardour gives the charge, Since frost itself as actively doth burn, And reason panders will.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c193d0b9ff1db340cac3dfcfc464cee4e71d918d8ec6e21ddb861c34ac7b4731
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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