When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended
That for the fault's love is th' offender friended.
(Measure For Measure)
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The commons, like an angry hive of bees
That want their leader, scatter up and down
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So all their praises are but prophecies
Of this our time, all you prefiguring;
And, for they looked but with divining eyes,
They had not skill enough your worth to sing.
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