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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
— The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1
KEYWORD: lanthorn
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Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
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Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
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[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;— |
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[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;
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This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man
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[as Moonshine] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the
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Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all
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