Hamlet vocabulary

the blossom in the fattest ground, is quickly blasted : the goat the fatter she is, the less fertile she is : yea man, the more witty he is, the less happy he is.

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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  With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,

  Thy natural magic and dire property

  On wholesome life usurp immediately.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

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One said she wrapped Denver when she was a single day old and cut shoes to fit her mother’s blasted feet.

Toni Morrison. Beloved (1988)