Richard II by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

written by William Shakespeare

BOLINGBROKE "O, who can hold a fire in his hand

By thinking on the frosty Caucasus'

Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite

By bare imagination of a feast,

Or wollow naked in December snow

By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?

O no, the apprehension of the good

Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more

Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore."

Act I Scene III