He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. β¨ William Shakespeare, R.A. Foakes (1962). Arden Shakespeare: The Comedy Of Errors: Second Series, p.14, Cengage Learning EMEA
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