William Shakespeare. 1564-1616
132. Love
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53 words

  TELL me where is Fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished?     Reply, reply. It is engender'd in the eyes, With gazing fed; and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.     Let us all ring Fancy's knell:     I'll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell. All. Ding, dong, bell.

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William Shakespeare. 1564-1616
133. Sweet-and-Twenty
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75 words
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