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'T is a fault to Heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: matter

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1

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Biron

197

How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Costard

204

The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.
The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Don Adriano de Armado

879

We will talk no more of this matter.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Costard

880

Till there be more matter in the shin.

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Rosaline

2099

O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter;
Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.

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