William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, The Rape of Lucrece, 22

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So that in venturing ill we leave to be (149)

The things we are for that which we expect; (150)

And this ambitious foul infirmity, (151)

In having much, torments us with defect (152)

Of that we have: so then we do neglect
(153)
The thing we have; and, all for want of wit, (154)

Make something nothing by augmenting it.

William Shakespeare. W. G. Clark. W. Aldis Wright. The Globe Shakespeare. New York. Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

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