It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Examine well your blood.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.