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Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

      — King Richard III, Act IV Scene 3

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KEYWORD: dreaming

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Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 2]

Troilus

2296

O Cressida! but that the busy day,
Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,
And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
I would not from thee.

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Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3]

Troilus

3369

This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.

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