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Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

      — As You Like It, Act V Scene 4

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As You Like It
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1198

Enter ROSALIND, reading a paper

2

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Rosalind

1235

Peace!
Here comes my sister, reading; stand aside.

3

As You Like It
[III, 2]

Orlando

1361

I pray you mar no more of my verses with reading them
ill-favouredly.

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