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I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1

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KEYWORD: terms

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King Lear
[I, 2]

Edmund

476

Parted you in good terms? Found you no displeasure in him by
word or countenance

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King Lear
[II, 4]

Goneril

1488

Why not by th' hand, sir? How have I offended?
All's not offence that indiscretion finds
And dotage terms so.

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