With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nat…

William Shakespeare
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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. ✨ 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]
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With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. ✨ 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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