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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.

      — Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 4

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Taming of the Shrew
[III, 2]

Petruchio

1464

Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear;
Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,
Though in some part enforced to digress,
Which at more leisure I will so excuse
As you shall well be satisfied withal.
But where is Kate? I stay too long from her;
The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.

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Taming of the Shrew
[V, 2]

Lucentio

2691

But a harsh hearing when women are froward.

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