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So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!

      — King Henry VIII, Act IV Scene 2

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KEYWORD: treatise

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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Claudio

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How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.

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