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    Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,
Have not we sworn it, many a time,
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How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! -As You Like It. Act v. read more

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The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act read more

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Let us make an honourable retreat. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, read more

Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words,— Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,— Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

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