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Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,

That kills and pains not ?

Truly, I have him : but I would not be the party that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is

immortal :..... but he that will believe all that they say, shall never be saved by half that they do.

• . . . . You must think this, look you, that the worm will do his kind.

, Antony and Cleopatra.

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It is too late ; the life of all his blood

Is touched corruptibly ;.....

and there the poison

Is, as a fiend, confined to tyrannize,

On unreprievable condemned blood.

King John.

The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset and curd, Like aigre droppings into milk, ^ The thin and wholesome blood.

Hamlet.

No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour's life.

Ibid.

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