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O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!Paradox
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?Metaphor
Beautiful tyrant!Oxymoron Fiend angelical!Oxymoron
Dove-feather'd raven!Oxymoron Wolvish ravening lamb!Oxymoron

Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!

Despised substance of divinest show!Paradox
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honorable villain!Oxymorons
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound?Paradox and Metaphor
O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!Paradox

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Act 3
Scene 2
Line 79

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Caves, Temples & Palaces, Unhappy Fortune! The Plague in the Plays