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What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?

      — The Tempest, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: shafts

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Pericles
[III, 3]

Cleon

1428

Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,
Yet glance full wanderingly on us.

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Titus Andronicus
[IV, 3]

Marcus Andronicus

1943

Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:
We will afflict the emperor in his pride.

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