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O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV Scene 1

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KEYWORD: held

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Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Earl of Suffolk

959

I pluck this red rose with young Somerset
And say withal I think he held the right.

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Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Lawyer

979

Unless my study and my books be false,
The argument you held was wrong in you:
[To SOMERSET]
In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.

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