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Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
Of starved people.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act V Scene 1

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Romeo and Juliet
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Balthasar

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Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
And presently took post to tell it you:
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.

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