What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of …

William Shakespeare
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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down? ✨ 'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213
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