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A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.

      — Love's Labour's Lost, Act I Scene 1

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Tempest
[IV, 1]

Prospero

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Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!
[CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are]
driven out]
Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
Than pard or cat o' mountain.

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