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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 3

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KEYWORD: guess

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Henry VIII
[I, 1]

Duke of Buckingham

86

Who did guide,
I mean, who set the body and the limbs
Of this great sport together, as you guess?

2

Henry VIII
[II, 1]

First Gentleman

825

You may guess quickly what.

3

Henry VIII
[V, 1]

Henry VIII

2977

Now, by thy looks
I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd?
Say, ay; and of a boy.

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