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I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.

      — As You Like It, Act II Scene 7

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Twelfth Night
[II, 5]

Maria

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Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's
coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the
sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half
hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I
know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of
him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,
[Throws down a letter]
for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.

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