doubt to fear:
“That love the fundamental part of state More than you doubt the
change on 't,”
CORIOLANUS, iii. 1. 152.
“The meaning is, ‘You whose zeal predominates over
your terrors; you who do not so much fear the danger of violent measures, as wish the good
to which they are necessary, the preservation of the original constitution of our
government’”
(JOHNSON)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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