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How keenly descriptive of the struggle we have all of us witnessed between Pussy's caution and cupidity, is Lady Macbeth's scornful jibe:—

Yet in all this there is no touch of kindness; and when we go further, we fare worse.

moans Romeo, who ought to have been ashamed of such a speech, even in the extremity of his anguish.

says Cornelius in "Cymbeline."

cries Lysander to poor Hermia; and Bertram, in "All's Well that Ends Well," must needs air his unwelcome views.

is the angry word he flings at Parolles; and, as his resentment flames hotter and hotter, he can apparently find no more stinging reproach:—