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Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys
Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.

      — Cymbeline, Act IV Scene 2

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KEYWORD: itches

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[II, 3]

Robert Shallow

1140

Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of
the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to
make one. Though we are justices and doctors and
churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our
youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.

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