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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.
— Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 4
KEYWORD: carrier
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[Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand] |
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2 |
[Enter another Carrier] |
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Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London? |
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4 |
Call in the sheriff.
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5 |
[Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier] |
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6 |
'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night,
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Why, villain, art not thou the carrier? |