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1
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“meantime we shall express our…

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…darker purpose”

2
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“come not between…

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… a dragon and his wrath”

3
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“time shall unfold what…

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…plaited cunning hides”

4
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“how sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is/…

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…to have a thankless child”

5
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“here I stand, your slave/…

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…a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man”

6
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“ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,/…

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…more hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child,/ than a sea monster”

7
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“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;/…

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…keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

8
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“I am bound/ upon a wheel…

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…of fire, that mine own tears/ do scald like molten lead”

9
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“I fear I am not in my…

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…perfect mind”

10
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“pray you now,…

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…forget and forgive”

11
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There was good sport at…

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…his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged

12
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What shall Cordelia do?….

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…love and be silent.

13
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I love your majesty according….

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…to my bond, nor more nor less

14
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Mend your speech…

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…a little, lest it may mar your fortunes

15
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Reverse thy doom, and in thy best…

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…consideration check this hideous rashness

16
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‘Tis the infirmity of his age;…

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…yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself

17
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The quality of nothing hath…

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…not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing then I shall not need spectacles.

18
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These late eclipses in the sun and moon…

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…portend no good to us.

19
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Let me, if not by birth,…

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…have lands by birth

20
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This fellow two on’s daughters and done a third a blessing…

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…against his will. If thou follow him, thou must needs to wear my coxcomb.