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  • That we would do
    We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
    And hath abatements and delays as many
    As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
    And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
    That hurts by easing.

    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235