William Shakespeare on Power
1564–1616 England
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O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?
Macbeth (1605)
For how can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest.
Macbeth (1605)
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great Tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dares not check thee!
Macbeth (1605)
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom.