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      "text": "How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?"
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      "text": "But, either it was different in blood,--"
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      "text": "To-morrow truly will I meet with thee."
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      "text": "God speed fair Helena! whither away?"
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      "text": "Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,"
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      "text": "I frown upon him, yet he loves me still."
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      "text": "O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!"
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      "text": "The more I hate, the more he follows me."
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      "text": "None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!"
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      "text": "Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;"
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      "text": "Lysander and myself will fly this place."
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      "text": "That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!"
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      "text": "Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:"
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      "text": "To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold"
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      "text": "And in the wood, where often you and I"
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      "text": "Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,"
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      "text": "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,"
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      "text": "There my Lysander and myself shall meet;"
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      "text": "And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,"
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      "text": "To seek new friends and stranger companies."
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      "text": "Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;"
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      "text": "And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!"
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      "text": "Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight"
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      "text": "From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight."
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      "text": "Helena, adieu:"
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      "text": "As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!"
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      "text": "How happy some o'er other some can be!"
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      "text": "Through Athens I am thought as fair as she."
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      "text": "He will not know what all but he do know:"
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      "text": "And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,"
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      "text": "So I, admiring of his qualities:"
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      "text": "Things base and vile, folding no quantity,"
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      "text": "And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:"
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      "text": "Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;"
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      "text": "Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:"
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      "text": "And therefore is Love said to be a child,"
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      "text": "As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,"
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      "text": "So the boy Love is perjured every where:"
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      "text": "For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,"
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      "text": "He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;"
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      "text": "And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,"
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      "text": "So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt."
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      "text": "I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:"
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      "text": "Then to the wood will he to-morrow night"
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      "text": "Pursue her; and for this intelligence"
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      "text": "If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:"
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      "text": "But herein mean I to enrich my pain,"
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      "text": "To have his sight thither and back again."
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