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1) Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the
rote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
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2) Goe, and catche a falling starre,
Get with child a mandrake roote,
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3) Barnardo. Who's there ?
Francisco. Nay, answer me. Stand and
unfold yourself.
Barnardo. Long live the king !
Francisco. Barnardo ?
Barnardo. He.
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4) Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
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5) Blessed be God,
at the end of the last year I was in very good health,
without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I
lived in Axe Yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no
more in family than us three.
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6) 'Tis hard to say, if greater want of
skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill ;
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7) I wish either my
father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in
duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were
about when they begot me ;
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8) Lady Sneer. The paragraphs, you
say, Mr. Snake, were all inserted ?
Snake.
They were, madam ; and, as I copied them myself in a feigned
hand, there can be no suspicion whence they came.
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9)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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10) Algernon : Did you hear what I
was playing , Lane ?
Lane : I didn't think it polite to
listen, sir.
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11) April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
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12) I was born in the city of Bombay .. once
upon a time.
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