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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

      — Measure for Measure, Act III Scene 1

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KEYWORD: unicorns

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Julius Caesar
[II, 1]

Decius Brutus

826

Never fear that: if he be so resolved,
I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear
That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,
Lions with toils and men with flatterers;
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
Let me work;
For I can give his humour the true bent,
And I will bring him to the Capitol.

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Tempest
[III, 3]

Sebastian

1585

A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

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