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For his bounty,
There was no winter in't; an autumn't was
That grew the more by reaping.

— Antony and Cleopatra, Act V Scene 2

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KEYWORD: bear

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# Result number	Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.	Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."	Line Shows where the line falls within the work. The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.	Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.
1	Twelfth Night [I, 5]	Feste	311	Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and, for turning away, let summer bear it out.
2	Twelfth Night [II, 1]	Sebastian	613	By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.
3	Twelfth Night [II, 4]	Orsino	992	There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart So big, to hold so much; they lack retention Alas, their love may be call'd appetite, No motion of the liver, but the palate, That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt; But mine is all as hungry as the sea, And can digest as much: make no compare Between that love a woman can bear me And that I owe Olivia.
4	Twelfth Night [II, 5]	Sir Toby Belch	1036	To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?
5	Twelfth Night [III, 2]	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	1442	Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?
6	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Olivia	1759	Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well: A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.
7	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Fabian	1841	He is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.
8	Twelfth Night [III, 4]	Sir Andrew Aguecheek	1872	Marry, will I, sir; and, for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily and reins well.

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