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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.

      — All's Well that Ends Well, Act II Scene 1

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KEYWORD: roam

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Henry IV, Part II
[V, 3]

Silence

3411

Ah, sirrah! quoth-a—we shall [Singing]
Do nothing but eat and make good cheer,
And praise God for the merry year;
When flesh is cheap and females dear,
And lusty lads roam here and there,
So merrily,
And ever among so merrily.

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Henry VI, Part I
[III, 1]

Earl of Warwick

1274

Roam thither, then.

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