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Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,
Thy element's below.

      — King Lear, Act II Scene 4

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KEYWORD: twas

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1

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 1]

Reignier

712

'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,
Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.

2

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 2]

Joan la Pucelle

1494

Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?
I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
Before he'll buy again at such a rate:
'Twas full of darnel; do you like the taste?

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Henry VI, Part I
[V, 4]

Joan la Pucelle

2747

O, give me leave, I have deluded you:
'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,
But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd.

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