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A strong conceit is rich; so most men deem: If not to be, 'tis comfort yet to seem. - [Conceit] Fear is my vassal, when I frown he flies; A hundred times in life a coward dies. - [Cowards] He's a king, A right true king, that dares do aught save wrong; Fears nothing mortal, but to be unjust; Who is not blown up with the flatt'ring puffs Of spongy sycophants; who stands unmov'd Despite the jostling of opinion. - [Kings] Marry! no, faith; husbands are like lots in The lottery, you may draw forty blanks Before you find one that has any prize In him; a husband generally is a Careless domineering thing, that grows like Coral; which as long as it is under water Is soft and tender; but as soon As it has got its branch above the waves Is presently hard, stiff, not to be bow'd. - [Husbands] Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. - [Courage] O calm, hush'd, rich content, Is there a being, blessedness, without thee? How soft thou down'st the couch where thou dost rest, Nectar to life thou sweet ambrosian feast. - [Contentment] See! the dapple gray coursers of the morn Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs, And chase it through the sky! - [Dawn] Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety,--old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly,--one in all, all in one. - [Caprice] Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. - [Danger] Through danger safety comes--through trouble rest. - [Adversity] Wink and shut their apprehensions up. - Antonio's Revenge (prolog) [Fear] A fool! my coxcomb for a fool! - Parasitaster [Folly] A man! A man! My kingdom for a man! - Scourge of Villainy [Man] All the fatt's in the fire. - What You Will (1607) [Fire]
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