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While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: receive

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Troilus and Cressida
[III, 1]

Helen

1641

'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;
Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty
Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,
Yea, overshines ourself.

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Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Patroclus

2108

Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.

3

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5]

Cressida

2636

In kissing, do you render or receive?

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