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You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,
With most admir'd disorder.

      — Macbeth, Act III Scene 4

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KEYWORD: division

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Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

25

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.

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Phoenix and the Turtle

Shakespeare

41

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded,

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