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Down on your knees,
And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

      — As You Like It, Act III Scene 5

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KEYWORD: prisoner

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Comedy of Errors
[IV, 4]

Antipholus of Ephesus

1362

What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,
I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them
To make a rescue?

2

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 4]

Officer

1365

Masters, let him go
He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.

3

Comedy of Errors
[IV, 4]

Officer

1372

He is my prisoner: if I let him go,
The debt he owes will be required of me.

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