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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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as of unnaturalness
between the child
and the parent;

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death, dearth,
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dissolution,
divisions, menaces.

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When we are sick
in fortune,

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we make guilty
of our disasters

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the sun, the moon,
the stars,

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as if we were drunkards,
liars, and adulterers

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by planetary influence.
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Why brand they me
with baseness?

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Bastardy? Base?
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My father coupled
with my mother
under the Dragon's tail,

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and I was born
under Ursa Major,

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so that it follows
that I am rough and lecherous.

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I should have been
that I am,

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had the maidenliest star
in the firmament

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twinkled on
my bastardizing.

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When sons are
at perfect age,

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and fathers
in decline,


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