To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it.

O Death! O Death! Won't you spare me over till another year? - part of the refrain from the American folk song A Conversation with Death.

The defining feature of astroturf groups is that they are generated by an industry, think tank, or front group, but disguised to appear as a spontaneous, popular 'grassroots' effort. They are created to lobby or campaign on behalf of[…]

In any case, the practices imputed to Shakespeare as an emergent dramatist were not in the least exceptional.