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Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not "seems."
'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black.

      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 2

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

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Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as
lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.

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