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True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

      — Romeo and Juliet, Act I Scene 4

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KEYWORD: perplex

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King John
[III, 1]

Cardinal Pandulph

1147

What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,
If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?

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