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Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners

Part 3 / Act 4 — ACT IV.

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Scene 1. Page 159.

Cor. I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd.

Thus Cæsar in Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene 4, "And the ebb'd man comes dear'd by being lack'd." We have still preserved this proverbial saying in another form. Mother Cole says, "When people are miss'd, then they are mourn'd." It is, in fact, Horace's "extinctus amabitur idem."

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