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Do not drop in for an after-loss.
Ah, do not, when my heart hath'scap'd this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.

      — Sonnet XC

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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Beatrice

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I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.

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