'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.
William Shakespeare
Nature
'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.