William Shakespeare on Looting
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“We may as bootless spend our vain command Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil As send precepts to the leviathan To come ashore.”
“Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage, And purchase friends, and give to courtesans, Still revelling like lords till all be gone.”
“I’ll be so bold to take what they have left. The cry of “Talbot” serves me for a sword; For I have loaden me with many spoils, Using no other weapon but his name.”