Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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One woe doth tread upon another's heel,

So fast they follow.[143:1]

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

Nature her custom holds,

Let shame say what it will.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

1 Clo.  Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.

2 Clo.  But is this law?

1 Clo.  Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law.

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.