If thou wert * * * * Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, Patch’d with foul moles and eye offending marks, I would not care. * * * King John, Act III., Sc. I.
In case of a recent burn it was the custom to place the part near the fire, thus upholding the old homœopathic doctrine that what hurts will cure.
And falsehood falsehood cures; as fire cools fire Within the scorched veins of one new burn’d. King John, Act III., Sc. I.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail; Rights by rights founder, strength by strengths do fail. Coriolanus, Act IV., Sc. VII.
One fire burns out another’s burning, One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish. Romeo and Juliet, Act I., Sc. II.
Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II., Sc. IV.
I must not break my back to heal his finger. Timon of Athens, Act II., Sc. I.
That bottled spider, that foul, bunch-back’d toad. Richard III., Act IV., Sc. IV.
Where’s that valiant crook-back prodigy? Henry VI—3d, Act I., Sc. IV.
Ladies, that have their toes Unplagu’d with corns, will have a bout with you. * * * * * Which of you all Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty, She, I’ll swear, hath corns. Romeo and Juliet, Act I., Sc. V.