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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
— King Henry IV. Part II, Act I Scene 2
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'O shame to knighthood and to shining arms!
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But in the midst of his unfruitful prayer,
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'For some hard-favour'd groom of thine,' quoth he,
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'What is the quality of mine offence,
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'Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?
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