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LLL/ 4.1.14-23

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PRINCESS

What, what? first praise me and again say no?
O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!

Forester

Yes, madam, fair.

PRINCESS

Nay, never paint me now:
Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:
Fair payment for foul words is more than due.

Forester

nothing but fair is that which you inherit.

PRINCESS

See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!
O heresy in fair, fit for these days!
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

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One Response to “LLL/ 4.1.14-23”

  1. ‘NOTHING’ in Shakespeare « Nothing Says:
    May 15, 2009 at 9:13 pm | Reply

    [...] but this” (3.1.126-131); “nothing but fair is that which you inherit” (4.1.14-23); “Imitari is nothing” (4.2.118-127); “I do nothing in the world but lie, and lie [...]

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