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All these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.

      — Romeo and Juliet, Act III Scene 5

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KEYWORD: promise

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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Messenger

11

Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2023

Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,
I promise thee.

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