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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,รน
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act II Scene 3

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KEYWORD: prabbles

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[I, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

46

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as
you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,
and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his
death's-bed—Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!
—give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years
old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles
and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master
Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[IV, 1]

Sir Hugh Evans

1933

Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative
case, William?

3

Merry Wives of Windsor
[V, 5]

Sir Hugh Evans

2730

And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack
and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and
swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?

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