“My swelling heart for very anger breaks.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
King Edward, Act II, scene ii, line 197
Edward II (c. 1592)
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
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