Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? β¨ 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [206]
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