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It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123
It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.