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Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

      — Coriolanus, Act I Scene 3

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KEYWORD: told

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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

738

This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
Had come along with me, but that his mistress
Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Host

1705

I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he loved
her out of all nick.

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