Hamlet
Act 3, Sc. 1, lines 50-55: How might what Claudius says be connected to what the Ghost has told Hamlet?
King. [aside] O, 'tis true.
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!