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may cry, Well done , Hercules ! now thou crustiest the 
snake ! that is the way to make an offence gracious ; 
though few have the grace to do it. 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v. Scene 1. 
Rosalind. I see, love hath made thee 
a tame snake, ... 
Oliver. A wretched ragged man, o’ergrown with 
hair, 
Lay sleeping on his back : about his neck 
A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself, 
Who with her head, nimble in threats, approach’d 
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly 
Seeing Orlando, it unlink’d itself, 
And with indented glides did slip away 
Into a bush : 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 3. 
King Richard. Snakes, in my heart-blood warm’d, 
that sting my heart ! 
King Richard II., Act iii. Scene 2. 
Queen Margaret. Or as the snake, roll’d in a flower¬ 
ing bank, 
With shining checker’d slough, 
York. I fear me you but warm the starved snake, 
Who, cherish’d in your breasts, will sting your hearts.- 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 1. 
Cleopatra. Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown’d 
with snakes, 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. Scene 5. 
