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Cymbeline

Act II, Scene 5

Another room in Philario's house.
 
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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      Is there no | way for | men to | be, but | women
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      Must be | half-work/ers? We | are all | bastards,
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      And that most ven|era|ble man,| which I
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      Did call | my fath|er, was,| I know | not where
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      When I | was stamped.| Some coin/er with | his tools
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      Made me a | counter|feit: yet | my moth|er seemed
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      The Di|an of | that time:| so doth | my wife
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      The non|pareil | of this.| Oh venge|ance, venge||ance!
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      Me | of my law|ful pleas|ure she | restrained,
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      And prayed | me oft | forbear|ance: did | it with
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      A pud|ency* so | rosy,| the sweet | view on it
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      Might well have | warmed old Sat|urn; that | I thought || her
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      As chaste,| as unsunned snow.| Oh^all | the devils!
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      This yel|low Iach|imo,| in an hour,| wast not?
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      Or less;| at first?| Perchance | he spoke | not, but
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      Like a full-ac|orned^boar,| a Ger|man one,
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      Cried oh, and mount|ed; found | no op|posi||tion
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      But what | he looked | for, should | oppose,| and she
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      Should from | encount|er guard.| Could I | find^out
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      The wom|an's part | in me,| for there's no | motion
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      That tends | to vice | in man,| but I | affirm
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      It is | the wom|an's part:| be it ly|ing, note it,
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      The wom|an's: flat|tering, hers;| deceiv|ing, hers:
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      Lust, and rank thoughts,| hers, hers; reveng|es hers;
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      Ambi|tions, cov|etings, change | of prides,| disdain,
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      Nice^long|ing, sland|ers, mut|abil|ity,
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      All* faults | that name,| nay, that | hell | knows,
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      Why hers,| in part,| or all;| but rath|er all.
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      For even | to vice   ????
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      They are / not const|ant, but | are chang|ing still;
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      One vice, but | of a min|ute old,| for one
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      Not half | so old | as that.| I'll write | against them,
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      Detest | them, curse | them: yet |'tis great|er skill
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      In a / true hate,| to pray | they have | their will:
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      The ve|ry devils | cannot | plague them | better.
 
[Exit]

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