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1
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If by your art

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you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them

2
Q

Knowing I loved books, he furnished me

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from mine own library with volumes that I prized above mine own dukedom

3
Q

This swift business

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I must uneasy make

4
Q

thou shalt be as free

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as mountain winds, but then exactly do all the points of my commands

5
Q

I’ll to my books, for yet ere suppertime

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must I perform much business

6
Q

possess his books

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for without them he is but a sot, as I

7
Q

And that most deeply to consider

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is the beauty of his daughter

8
Q

I have given you here

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one third of mine own life

9
Q

All thy vexations were but my trials

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of thy love, and thou strangely stood the test

10
Q

I must bestow upon the eyes

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of this couple some vanity of mine art

11
Q

hush and be mute

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or else our spell is marred

12
Q

These our actors, as I foretold you,

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were all spirits and are melted into air

13
Q

The great globe its self

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yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve

14
Q

we are such

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stuff as dreams are made of, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep

15
Q

A devil, a born devil,

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on who’s nature nurture never sticks; on whom my pains humanly taken

16
Q

mine would sir, were I human //////

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And mine shall

17
Q

This rough magic

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I here abjure

18
Q

I’ll break my staff, bury it

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certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book

19
Q

I do forgive thy rankest fault- all of them; and require

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my dukedom of thee, which perforce I know thou must restore

20
Q

Most cruelly didst thou,

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Alonso, use me and my daugher

21
Q

Bravely

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my diligence. Thou shall be free

22
Q

This thing of

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darkness I acknowledge mine

23
Q

release me from my bands/

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with the help of thy good hands

24
Q

Gentle breath of yours my sials/

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must fill or else my project fails

25
Q

As you from crimes would pardoned be

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let your indulgence set me free

26
Q

CRITIC

Charles Spencer

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Omnipotent pupet master

27
Q

CRITIC

Harold Bloom “Prospero’s

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authority is unlike anyone else’s in Shakespeare”

28
Q

CRITIC

Harold Bloom “breaking his

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staff and drowning his boo certainly constitute diminishments to the self.