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INDEX/BCMSV/1045

1606 ?

Quotation from Act 1 Scene 7 of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" on justice finding out the wrong-doer, here among a collection of "Latin proverbs with

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INDEX/BCMSV/1162

1604 ?

Attitudes to death and its universality, incorporating Claudio's speech on the terrors of death from Shakepeare's play "Measure for Measure", III.1; the

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INDEX/BCMSV/1169

1600 ?

Abridgement of Hamlet's soliloquy from Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", III.1,

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INDEX/BCMSV/1170

1613

Cardinal Wolsey's speech on his rise and fall from Shakespeare's play "Henry VIII", III.2. Annotated at head, "Cato died like a fool, only fearing such a

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INDEX/BCMSV/1700

1595 ?

On the art of poetry, used as epigraph to Dallaway's collection of his own

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INDEX/BCMSV/1828

1604

On the impossibility of even the greatest or most virtuous person escaping malicious slander; extract from Shakespeare's play "Measure for Measure",

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INDEX/BCMSV/1836

1604

Assertion that a ruler must practise the highest standards of virtuous personal behaviour and self-examination; extract from Shakespeare's play

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INDEX/BCMSV/1866

1594

On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from

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INDEX/BCMSV/1886

1604

On the injustice of human life, in which the sinful are often rewarded and the virtuous punished; crossed through. Extract from Shakespeare's play

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INDEX/BCMSV/1887

1594

Extract from Shakespeare's play "The Comedy of Errors", I.1, in which Egeon

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INDEX/BCMSV/1888

1594

On the difficulty of dispelling slander, once current; extract from

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INDEX/BCMSV/1889

1594

Advice to a husband to disguise his infidelity by pretence of virtue; extract