Act I, Scene 129

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• Shakespeare. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  Is lust in action; and till action, lust 1795
  Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
  Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
  Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
  Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
  Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait 1800
  On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
  Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
  Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
  A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
  Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. 1805
  All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.