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frailty (n.)

'T is strange that death should sing.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,

Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,

And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings

His soul and body to their lasting rest.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act v. Sc. 7.

  It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Of Adversity.

Frailty, thy name is woman!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.