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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter the KING of Navarre with Lords BEROWNE, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAINE.} KING. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen Tombs, And then grace us, in the disgrace of death: ...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter Armado the BRAGGART knight, and his PAGE.} BRAGGART. Boy, What sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy? PAGE. A great sign sir that he will look sad. BRAGGART. Why? sadness is one and ...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter the PRINCESS of France with her Ladies KATHARINE, MARIA and ROSALINE, accompanied by Lords BOYET and MARCADE.} BOYET. Now madam summon up your dearest spirits, Consider who the King your father sends: To...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter BRAGGART and PAGE.} BRAGGART. Warble child, make passionate my sense of hearing. PAGE. Concolinel. BRAGGART. Sweet Air, go tenderness of years, take this Key, give enlargement to the Swain, bring him ...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter PRINCESS, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, MARCADE, with a FORESTER of Navarre.} PRINCESS. Was that the king that spurr'd his horse so hard, Against the steep up-rising of the hill? FORESTER. I know...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter Holofernes the PEDANT, Nathaniel the CURATE, and DULL.} CURATE. Very reverent sport truly, and done in the testimony of a good conscience. PEDANT. The Deer was (as you know) sanguis in blood, ripe as the Pomwater, ...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter BEROWNE, alone, with a paper in his hand.} BEROWNE. The king he is hunting the Deer, I am coursing myself. They have pitch'd a Toil, I am toiling in a pitch, pitch that defiles; defile, a foul word: Well,...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter PEDANT, CURATE, and DULL.} PEDANT. Satis quid sufficit , CURATE. I praise God for you sir, your reasons at Dinner have been sharp and sententious: pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, MARIA, and ROSALINE.} PRINCESS. Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart, If fairings come thus plentifully in: A lady wall'd about with diamonds: Look you what I have...

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NNNNNNNNNNNN   {Enter BOYET. Enter KING, LONGAVILLE, DUMAINE, and BEROWNE.} KING. Fair sir, God save you: Where’s the Princess? BOYET. Gone to her Tent. Please it your majesty command me any service to her thither? KING. ...