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My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
That fools should be so deep-contemplative;
And I did laugh sans intermission
An hour by his dial.

      — As You Like It, Act II Scene 7

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Tempest
[I, 2]

Caliban

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O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
This isle with Calibans.

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