. Complete works of William Shakespeare . be blest To do your pleasure and continue friends. Panel. All form is formless, order orderless,Save what is opposite to Englands to arms! be champion of our church,Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,A mothers curse, on her revolting , thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,A chafed lion by the mortal paw,A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 260 Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. K, Phi. I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith. Panel. So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;And like a civil war sets
. Complete works of William Shakespeare . be blest To do your pleasure and continue friends. Panel. All form is formless, order orderless,Save what is opposite to Englands to arms! be champion of our church,Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,A mothers curse, on her revolting , thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,A chafed lion by the mortal paw,A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 260 Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. K, Phi. I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith. Panel. So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;And like a civil war setst oath to oath,Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vowPirst made to heaven, first be to heaven performd,That is, to be the champion of our church!What since thou sworest is sworn against thyselfAnd may not be performed by thyself,Por that which thou hast sworn to do amiss 270 Is not amiss when it is truly done,And being not done, where doing tends to ill,The truth is then most done not doing it:The better act of purposes mistook 43. Act in. -King 5obru Is to mistake again; though indirect, Yet indirection thereby grows direct, And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire Within the scorched veins of one new-burnd. It is religion that doth make vows kept; But thou hast sworn against religion, [swearst, 280 By what thou swearst against the thing thou And makest an oath the surety for thy truth Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure To swear, swears only not to be forsworn; Else what a mockery should it be to swear! But thou dost swear only to be forsworn; And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear. Therefore thy later vows against thy first Is in thyself rebellion to thyself; And better conquest never canst thou make 290 Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts Against these giddy loose suggestions: Upon which better part our prayers come in, If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know The peril of our curses light on thee So heavy as thou shalt not shake
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