Delusion.

Name: Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Delusion.
Author: Edith Nesbit

For love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul;
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place;
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.

Hamlet — III. 4.

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Chicago: Edith Nesbit, "Delusion.," Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, ed. Altemus, Henry in Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Original Sources, accessed October 16, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49M4UZR357F7AD5.

MLA: Nesbit, Edith. "Delusion." Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, edited by Altemus, Henry, in Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Original Sources. 16 Oct. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49M4UZR357F7AD5.

Harvard: Nesbit, E, 'Delusion.' in Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, ed. . cited in , Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare. Original Sources, retrieved 16 October 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=49M4UZR357F7AD5.