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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head...

      — As You Like It, Act II Scene 1

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KEYWORD: demand

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Henry VI, Part II
[I, 1]

Duke of Gloucester

139

A proper jest, and never heard before,
That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth
For costs and charges in transporting her!
She should have stayed in France and starved
in France, Before—

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Henry VI, Part II
[V, 1]

Duke of Buckingham

3015

That is too much presumption on thy part:
But if thy arms be to no other end,
The king hath yielded unto thy demand:
The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.

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