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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

      — Love's Labour's Lost, Act V Scene 2

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KEYWORD: desire

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King Lear
[IV, 5]

Regan

2582

I speak in understanding. Y'are! I know't.
Therefore I do advise you take this note.
My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd,
And more convenient is he for my hand
Than for your lady's. You may gather more.
If you do find him, pray you give him this;
And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
I pray desire her call her wisdom to her.
So farewell.
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.

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King Lear
[IV, 6]

Edgar

2873

I know thee well. A serviceable villain,
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire.

3

King Lear
[IV, 7]

Doctor

3000

Be comforted, good madam. The great rage
You see is kill'd in him; and yet it is danger
To make him even o'er the time he has lost.
Desire him to go in. Trouble him no more
Till further settling.

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