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But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.

      — Julius Caesar, Act V Scene 1

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KEYWORD: dinner

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King Lear
[I, 3]

Goneril

528

And let his knights have colder looks among you.
What grows of it, no matter. Advise your fellows so.
I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,
That I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister
To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.

2

King Lear
[I, 4]

Lear

543

Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready. [Exit
an Attendant.]
How now? What art thou?

3

King Lear
[I, 4]

Lear

571

Follow me; thou shalt serve me. If I like thee no worse after
dinner, I will not part from thee yet. Dinner, ho, dinner!
Where's my knave? my fool? Go you and call my fool hither.
[Exit an attendant.]
[Enter [Oswald the] Steward.]
You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?

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