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O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes.

      — A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I Scene 1

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KEYWORD: approach

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1

Twelfth Night
[I, 5]

Olivia

454

Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.

2

Twelfth Night
[I, 5]

Olivia

488

It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,
keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,
and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you
than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if
you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of
moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.

3

Twelfth Night
[II, 3]

Sir Toby Belch

701

Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after
midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo
surgere,' thou know'st,—

4

Twelfth Night
[II, 5]

Maria

1223

If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will come to
her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
me.

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