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They say miracles are past.

      — All's Well that Ends Well, Act II Scene 3

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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

525

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
My master sues to her, and she hath
taught her suitor,
He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,
That my master, being scribe, to himself should write
the letter?

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

542

What need she, when she hath made you write to
yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 5]

Launce

889

Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very
fairly in jest.

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