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What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels, racks, fires? What flaying, boiling
In leads or oils? What old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst?
What wheels, racks, fires? What flaying, boiling
In leads or oils? What old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst?
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Paulina, in The Winter's Tale, act 3, sc. 2, l. 175-9.
Emphasizing what a tyrant Leontes has been, but knowing that he is not really going to punish her now he has come to his senses.
Emphasizing what a tyrant Leontes has been, but knowing that he is not really going to punish her now he has come to his senses.
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