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Must I hold a candle to my shames?

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

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KEYWORD: counter-gate

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Merry Wives of Windsor
[III, 3]

Falstaff

1475

Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the
Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek
of a lime-kiln.

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