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The Merchant of Venice

— William Shakespeare

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  1. Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
  2. On a day-alack the day!- Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air
  3. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care
  4. I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture (Modern spelling: I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.)
  5. Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves …
  6. Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edge…
  7. But Shakespear's Magick could not copy'd be, Within that Circle none durst walk but he.
  8. Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit.

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