King Lear
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Canst tell why one's nose
stands i' th' middle
of one's face?

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No.
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Why, to keep one's eyes
on either side of one's nose.

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That what a man
cannot smell out,
he may spy into.

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I did her wrong.
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Canst tell
how an oyster
makes his shell?

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No.
Nor I, neither.

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But I can tell why
a snail has a house.

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Why?
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Why, to put his head in;
not to give it away
to his daughters.

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I will forget
my nature.

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So kind a father.
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The reason why
the seven stars are
no more than seven

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is a pretty reason.
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Because they are
not eight?

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Yes, indeed.
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Thou wouldst make
a good fool.

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To take't
again perforce.

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Monster ingratitude.
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If thou wert
my fool, nuncle,

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I'd have thee beaten
for being old
before thy time.

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How's that?
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Thou shouldst not
have been old till
thou hadst been wise.

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O, let me
not be mad,

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not mad, sweet heaven!
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Keep me in temper.
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I would not be mad.
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How now, brother Edmund!
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What serious contemplation
are you in?

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I was thinking, brother,
of a prediction
I read this other day,

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what should follow
these eclipses.

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And do you busy
yourself with that?

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I promise you,
the effects he writes of
succeed unhappily;


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