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Quotation by Shakespeare
If then true lovers have ever been crossed
It stands as an edict in destiny.
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love and thoughts, and dreams, and sighs,
Wishes, and tears—poor fancy's followers.
It stands as an edict in destiny.
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love and thoughts, and dreams, and sighs,
Wishes, and tears—poor fancy's followers.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hermia, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 1, sc. 1, l. 150-5.
"Crossed" means thwarted; "fancy" suggests both love and the capricious workings of the imagination.
"Crossed" means thwarted; "fancy" suggests both love and the capricious workings of the imagination.
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