“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

Variant: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Source: Hamlet

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English playwright and poet 1564–1616

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“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”