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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

      — As You Like It, Act V Scene 2

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KEYWORD: fatherly

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Cymbeline
[II, 3]

Cloten

1013

I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I
was up so early: he cannot choose but take this
service I have done fatherly.
[Enter CYMBELINE and QUEEN]
Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Claudio

1716

Let me but move one question to your daughter;
And, by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.

3

Taming of the Shrew
[II, 1]

Katherina

1136

Call you me daughter? Now I promise you
You have show'd a tender fatherly regard
To wish me wed to one half lunatic,
A mad-cap ruffian and a swearing Jack,
That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.

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