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Players

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy, Therefore, they thought it good you hear a play, And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life.— T. S. IND. 2.

Is there no play,— M. N. v. 1.

To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? Shall's have a play of this? Cym. v.5. What, a play toward? I'll be an auditor.— M. N. iii. 1.

The play's the thing, Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.— H. ii. 2.

Good, my lord, will you see the players well bestow'd? Do you hear, let them be well used; for they are the abstract, and brief chronicles, of the time: After your death, you were better have a bad epitaph, than their ill report while you live.— H. ii. 2.

The players cannot keep counsel; they'll tell all. H. iii.