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The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
— King Lear, Act IV Scene 1
KEYWORD: fretting
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Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?
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Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,
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This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;
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'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you;
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