Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Rich. And decke my Body in gay Ornaments,
Rich. And 'witch sweet Ladies with my Words and Lookes.
Rich. Oh miserable Thought! and more vnlikely,
Rich. Then to accomplish twentie Golden Crownes.
Rich. Why Loue forswore me in my Mothers Wombe:
Rich. And for I should not deale in her soft Lawes,
Rich. Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe,
Rich. To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub,
Rich. To make an enuious Mountaine on my Back,
Rich. Where sits Deformitie to mocke my Body;
Rich. To shape my Legges of an vnequall size,
Rich. To dis‑proportion me in euery part:
Rich. Like to a Chaos, or an vn‑lick'd Beare‑whelpe,
Rich. That carryes no impression like the Damme.
Rich. And am I then a man to be belou'd?
Rich. Oh monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought.
Rich. Then since this Earth affoords no Ioy to me,
Rich. But to command, to check, to o're‑beare such,
Rich. As are of better Person then my selfe:
Rich. Ile make my Heauen, to dreame vpon the Crowne,