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And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

      — King Henry VI. Part III, Act II Scene 1

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KEYWORD: hybla

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Henry IV, Part I
[I, 2]

Henry V

152

As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And
is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?

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Julius Caesar
[V, 1]

Cassius

2382

Antony,
The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.

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