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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Lay

Lay on, Macduff;
And damn’d be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7. (Macbeth to Macduff.)

Lay not that flatt’ring unction to your soul,
That not your trespass, but my madness, speaks.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.)