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But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 4

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KEYWORD: wish

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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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King Lear
[I, 1]

Earl of Kent

15

I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so
proper.

2

King Lear
[II, 4]

Regan

1454

O the blest gods! so will you wish on me
When the rash mood is on.

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