Quotation by Shakespeare

You think I'll weep:
No, I'll not weep.
I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Lear, in King Lear, act 2, sc. 4, l. 282-6.

"Flaws" means fragments; "Or ere" means before.
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