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The world is not thy friend nor the world's law.

      — Romeo and Juliet, Act V Scene 1

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Henry V
[V, 2]

Duke of Burgundy

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Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you
for that. If you would conjure in her, you must
make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true
likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you
blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the
virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the
appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing
self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid
to consign to.

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