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Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something.

      — Twelfth Night, Act III Scene 4

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KEYWORD: hereafter

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Twelfth Night
[II, 3]

Feste

747

[Sings]
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

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Twelfth Night
[III, 4]

Malvolio

1666

Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow
things: I am not of your element: you shall know
more hereafter.

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