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Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
— King Henry V, Act I Scene 1
KEYWORD: queen
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Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;
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Did your letters pierce the Queen to any demonstration of
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Ay, sir. She took them, read them in my presence,
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Though that the Queen on special cause is here,
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Sir, I thought it fit
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