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Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

      — King John, Act I Scene 1

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Passionate Pilgrim

Shakespeare

336

The wiles and guiles that women work,
Dissembled with an outward show,
The tricks and toys that in them lurk,
The cock that treads them shall not know.
Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for nought?

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