Note 31 — VII ASPECTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY[24]
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For men have marble, women waxen minds, And therefore are they formed as marble will; The weak oppressed, the impression of strange kinds Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill. Then call them not the authors of their ill, No more than wax shall be accounted evil, Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil. (Lucrece, 1240-6.)
How easy it is for the proper-false In women's waxen hearts, to set their forms! Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we; For, such as we are made of, such we be. (Twelfth Night, II., ii., 31.)