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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.684, BookCaps Study Guides

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

What, can the devil speak true?

'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 107

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.

William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.38

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [274]

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.639

He must needs go that the devil drives.

William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.833, Wordsworth Editions

They were devils incarnate.

'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [33]

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459