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Thou troublest me; I am not in the vein.

      — King Richard III, Act IV Scene 2

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KEYWORD: lie

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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Julia

231

Then let it lie for those that it concerns.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

232

Madam, it will not lie where it concerns
Unless it have a false interpeter.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Julia

255

This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
Here is a coil with protestation!
[Tears the letter]
Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:
You would be fingering them, to anger me.

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

293

What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

295

Nay, I was taken up for laying them down:
Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.

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