Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

by E. Nesbit; William Shakespeare

DELAY.

That we would do,

We should do when we would; for this would changes,

And hath abatements and delays as many,

As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;

And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,

That hurts by easing.

Hamlet -- IV. 7.

DELUSION.

For love of grace,