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Death Bed Injunction: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain : For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. He, that no more may say, is listen'd more Than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before.

The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; Writ in remembrance, more than things long past: Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,— R. II. ii. 1

My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.