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Rome. Philario's house.
[Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO]
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Fear it | not sir:| I would | I were | so sure
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To win | the king,| as I | am bold,| her honor
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Will remain | hers.
PHILARIO
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What means | do you make | to him?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Not an|y: but | abide | the change | of time,
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Quake in | the pres|ent wint|er's state,| and
wish
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That warm|er days | would come:| in these /
seared hopes
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I bare|ly gra|tify | your love;| they fail||ing,
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I | must die much | your deb|tor.
PHILARIO
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Your ve|ry good|ness, and | your comp|any,
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Orepays | all^I | can do.| By this | your king,
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Hath heard | of great | Augus|tus: Caius |
Lucius,
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Will do | his commis|sion through|ly. And | I
think
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He'll grant | the tri|bute, send | the
arrear|ages,
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Or look | upon | our Rom|ans, whose |
remem||brance
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Is yet | fresh in | their grief.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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I do | believe
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(Statist | though I | am none,| nor like | to be)
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That this | will prove | a war;| and you | shall
hear
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The leg|ion now | in Gal|lia, soon|er land||ed
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In our / not-fear|ing Bri|tain, than | have
tid||ings
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Of an|y pen|ny tri|bute paid.| Our coun||trymen
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Are men | more ord/ered than when | Julius |
Caesar
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Smiled at their | lack of | skill, but | found
their | courage
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Worthy | his frown|ing at.| Their* dis|cipline,
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(Now ming/led with | their cour|ages) will / make
known
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To their | approv|ers they | are peo|ple such
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That mend | upon | the world.
[Enter IACHIMO]
PHILARIO
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See Ia|chimo.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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The swift|est harts,| have post|ed you | by land;
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And winds | of all | the com|ers kissed | your
sails,
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To make | your ves|sel nim|ble.
PHILARIO
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Wel|come sir.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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I hope | the brief|ness of | your ans|wer, made
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The spee|diness | of your re|turn.
IACHIMO
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Your | lady,
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Is one | of the fair|est that | I have looked |
upon.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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And there|withal | the best,| or let | her
beau||ty
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Look | through a case|ment to al|lure false
hearts,
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And be | false with them.
IACHIMO
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Here are | letters | for you.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Their ten|or good | I trust.
IACHIMO
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'Tis ve|ry like.
PHILARIO
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Was Cai|us Luc|ius in | the Brit|ain court,
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When you | were there?
IACHIMO
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He was | expect|ed then,
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But not | approached.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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All is | well yet,
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Sparkles || this stone | as it | was wont,| or
is it not
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Too dull / for your | good* wear|ing?
IACHIMO
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If | I had lost it,
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I should | have lost | the worth | of it | in
gold,
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I'll make | a journ|ey twice | as far,| to enjoy
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A sec|ond night | of such sweet short|ness, which
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Was mine | in Bri|tain, for | the ring | is won.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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The stone's | too hard | to come | by.
IACHIMO
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Not | a whit,
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Your la|dy being | so ea|sy.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Make | not sir,
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Your loss,| your sport:| I hope | you know | that
we
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Must^not | contin|ue friends.
IACHIMO
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Good* sir,| we must
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If you | keep co/venant.| Had I | not brought
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The know|ledge of | your mist|ress home,| I grant
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We were | to ques|tion furth|er: but | I now
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Profess | myself | the winner | of her | honor,
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Togeth|er with | your ring;| and not | the
wrong||er
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Of her | or you,| having | procee|ded but
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By both | your wills.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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If you can | make it ap|parent
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That you | have tast|ed her | in bed;| my hand,
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And ring | is yours.| If not,| the foul |
opin||ion
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You had | of her pure | honor | gains, or |
loses,
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Your sword,| or mine,| or mast|erless / leave
both
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To who | shall find | them.
IACHIMO
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Sir,| my cir|cumstan||ces
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Being | so near | the truth | as I will | make
them,
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Must first | induce | you to | believe:|
whose^strength
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I will con|firm with | oath, which^|I doubt not,
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You'll give | me leave | to spare,| when you |
shall find
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You need it | not.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Pro|ceed.
IACHIMO
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First, her bed | chamber
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(Where I | confess | I slept | not, but | profess
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Had that | was well | worth wat/ching) it was |
hanged
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With || tape|stry of | silk, and | silver, the
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Proud Cleo|patra,| when she | met her | Roman,
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And Cyd|nus swelled | above | the banks,| or for
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The press | of boats,| or pride.| A piece | of
work
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So brave|ly done,| so rich,| that it | did strive
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In work|manship,| and val|ue, which | I
won||dered
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Could be | so rare|ly and | exact|ly wrought
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Since the | true life on it | was--
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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This | is true:
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And this | you might | have heard | of here,| by
me,
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Or by | some oth|er.
IACHIMO
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More | partic|ulars
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Must jus|tify | my know|ledge.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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So | they must,
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Or do | your hon|or in|jury.
IACHIMO
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The chim||ney
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Is south | the chamb|er, and | the chim|ney-piece
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Chaste Dian bath|ing: never | saw I | figures
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So like|ly to | report | themselves;| the cutter
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Was as a|nother | nature,| dumb; out|went her,
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Motion | and breath | left^out.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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This is | a thing
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Which you | might from | rela|tion
like|wise^reap,
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Being, as it | is, much^|spoke of.
IACHIMO
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The | roof of the | chamber
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With gold|en cher|ubins | is fretted.| Her
and|irons
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(I | had forgot | them) were / two wink|ing
Cu||pids
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Of silver,| each on | one foot*| standing,|
nicely
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depend|ing on | their brands.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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This is her | honor:
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Let it be | granted | you have seen | all this
|(and praise
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Be given | to your | remem|brance) the
de|scription
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Of what | is in | her chamb|er noth|ing saves
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The wag|er you | have laid.
IACHIMO
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Then if | you can
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Be pale,| I beg | but leave | to air | this
jewel: see, ????
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And now |'tis up | again:| it must | be mar||ried
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To that | your dia|mond, I'll | keep them.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Jove--
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Once more let | me behold | it: is | it that
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Which I | left with | her?
IACHIMO
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Sir |(I thank | her) that
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She stripped | it from | her arm:| I see | her
yet:
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Her pret|ty ac|tion, did | outsell | her gift,
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And yet | enriched | it too:| she gave | it me,
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And said,| she prized | it once.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Maybe | she plucked | it off (tri with
prev)
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To send it | me.
IACHIMO
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She | writes so | to you?| Doth she?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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O no,| no*, no,| 'tis true.| Here, take^|this
too*, ????
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It is | a bas|ilisk | unto | mine eye,
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Kills me to | look on it:| Let there | be no |
honor
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Where there | is beaut|y: truth,| where
sem|blance: love,
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Where there's a|nother | man. The | vows of |
women
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Of no | more* bon|dage be,| to where | they are
made,
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Than they | are to their | virtues,| which is |
nothing;
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O, above meas|ure false.
PHILARIO
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Have pa|tience sir,
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And take | your ring | again,| 'tis not yet won:
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It may | be prob|able | she lost | it: or
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Who knows if one | of her wom|en, being |
corrup||ted
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Hath stolen | it from | her.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Ve|ry true,
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And so || I hope | he came | by it:| back my
ring,
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Render to | me some | corporal | sign a|bout her
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More^ev|ident | than this:| for this | was
stolen.
IACHIMO
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By Jup|iter,| I had | it from | her arm.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Hark you,| he swears:| by Jup|iter | he swears.
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'Tis true,| nay keep | the ring;| 'tis true:| I
am sure
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She would / not lose | it: her | attend|ants are
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All || sworn and | honora|ble: they | induced |
to steal it?
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And by | a strang|er? No,| he hath en|joyed her,
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The cog|nizance | of her | incon|tinency
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Is this:| she hath bought | the name | of whore,|
thus^dear||ly.
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There,| take thy hire, and all the fiends of hell
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Divide | themselves | between | you.
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Sir,| be pa||tient:
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This | is not strong | enough | to be | believed
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Of one | persua|ded well | of.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Never | talk on it:
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She hath | been col|ted by | him.
IACHIMO
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If | you seek
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For furth|er sat|isfy|ing, und|er her breast
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(Worthy | the pres|sing) lies | a mole, right
proud
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Of that / most del|icate lod|ging. By | my life
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I kissed | it, and it | gave me | present |
hunger
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To feed | again,| though full.| You do |
remem||ber
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This stain | upon | her?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Aye,| and it doth | confirm
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Anoth|er stain,| as big | as hell | can hold,
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Were there* no | more but | it.
IACHIMO
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Will | you hear more?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Spare your | arith|metic: \\
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Never | count the | turns: once,/ and a |
million.
IACHIMO
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I'll be | sworn.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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No | swearing: (di with prev)
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If you | will swear | you have / not done it,|
you lie,
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And I | will kill | thee, if | thou dost | deny
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Thoust^made | me cuck|old.
IACHIMO
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I'll | deny | nothing.
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O that | I had | her here,| to tear | her
limb-||meal:
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I | will go | there and do it,| in the court,|
before
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Her fath|er. I'll / do some|thing.
[Exit]
PHILARIO
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Quite | besides
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The gov|ernment | of pa|tience. You | have won:
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Let's fol/low him,| and pervert | the pres|ent
wrath
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He hath | against | himself.
IACHIMO
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With all | my heart.
[Exeunt]