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Preface to Shakespeare

Act 3 — ACT III. SCENE iii. (III. i. 183.)

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Affection makes him false.

The charge of falshood on Bentivolio, though produced at hazard, is very just. The authour, who seems to intend the character of Bentiolio as good, meant perhaps to shew, how the best minds, in a state of faction and discord, are detorted to criminal partiality.

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