First Shake-Speare:
"Though parting be a fretful corrosive,
It is applied to a deathful wound."
2 Henry VI, 3.2.402-3
It is applied to a deathful wound."
2 Henry VI, 3.2.402-3
"[The poison] whose effect
Holding such enmity with the blood of man"
Hamlet 1.5.65
Holding such enmity with the blood of man"
Hamlet 1.5.65
"But with a ling'ring dram that should not work
Maliciously like poison"
The Winter's Tale 1.2.320-1
Maliciously like poison"
The Winter's Tale 1.2.320-1
now Bacon:
"Medicine...of secret malignity and disagreement towards man's body...it worketh either by corrosion or by secret malignity and enmity to nature,"
Natural History
Comment: Thus this triple collocation of medicine's or poison's malignity, enmity to nature/man, and corrosion, appears in both writers, though in Shake-Speare in three different texts.
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