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

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I know death hath ten thousand several doors

For men to take their exit.[180:3]

Duchess of Malfi. Act iv. Sc. 2.

'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.[180:4]

The White Devil. Act i. Sc. 2.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?

So may you blame some fair and crystal river

For that some melancholic, distracted man

Hath drown'd himself in 't.

The White Devil. Act iii. Sc. 2.