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| Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. |
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Lear
When Lear is asking his daughters how much they love him, he is speaking to Cordelia whom did not say she loved him. |
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| If for I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not... |
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Cordelia
After Cordy says she does not love Lear the most, Cordy is trying to defend herself to Lear as he is trying to marry her off to banish her. |
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| Thou, Nature, art my goddess. |
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Edmund
Edmund is plotting against Edgar, about to create a fake letter from Edgar to Gloucester saying that Edgar wants to kill G. |
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Term
| These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. |
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Gloucester
After Edmund gives G the fake letter from Edgar who "wants to kill G" |
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| This is the excellent foppery of the world... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity. |
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Edmund
angrily complaining about G's reaction to the letter right before Edmund runs into Edgar and decieves him. |
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Term
| No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master. |
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Kent
Disguised as Caius, this is the first time he meets Lear after his banishment and convinces Lear to make him a servant for Lear. |
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| Nuncle, give me and egg and I'll give you two crowns. |
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Fool
Telling Lear how foolish dividing his land (and trusting his daughters) was, right before Goneril enters and confronts Lear on finding another place to stay. |
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| Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. |
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Fool
Talking to Lear as he is about to leave to stay at Regan's place, right before we first hear about Cornwall and Albany's animosity. |
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| Poor Turlygod! Poor Tom! That's something yet. Edgar I nothing am. |
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Edgar
when he first slips into the disguise of Crazy Tom |
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Term
| I am now from home, and out of that provision which shall be needful for your entertainment. |
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Regan
explaining to Lear that he cannot stay with her, right after Lear finds out that Cornwall put Kent in the stocks |
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Term
| I will do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth. |
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Definition
Lear
after Regan and Goneril take hands against him and send him outside, the storm breaks out after this. |
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Term
| Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! |
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Definition
Lear
Lear and the Fool are out in the storm for the first night, this is before Kent shows them to shelter. |
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Term
| I am a man more sinned against than sinning. |
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Lear
After Kent arrives (as Caius) to find Lear and the Fool in the storm, but before they all find their way with Kent to the shelter that has Crazy Tom in it. |
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| My wits begin to turn. Come on, my boy. How dost, my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself. |
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Definition
Lear
To the Fool, Lear agrees that they need to go with Kent to find shelter. |
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Term
| Oh, I have taken too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. |
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Definition
Lear
Right before they enter the shelter where Crazy Tom is hiding |
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Term
| Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. |
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Lear
To Edgar (disguised as Tom) in the shelter, before Gloucester finds all of them to take Lear to warmth. |
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Term
| This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet! |
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Edgar
Seemingly mad (as Tom) and talking about Gloucester with his torch, as G is coming to look for Lear and take him to warmth. |
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Cornwall
As he's plucking out Gloucester's second eye for being in alliance with Lear |
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Term
| The worst is not so long as we can say, "this is the worst." |
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Edgar
As crazy tom, this is right before Edgar is asked to lead G into Dover and after G has his eyes gouched out by Cornwall. |
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Term
| As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. |
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Definition
Gloucester
Right after he has his eyes gouched out by Cornwall, and right before Edgar (as tom) will lead him to Dover. |
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Term
| The wren goes to it, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive. |
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Definition
Lear
Mad as hell, Lear is running around right after Gloucester wakes up from an attempted suicide. |
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Term
| We came crying hither. Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. |
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Definition
Lear
talking to Gloucester (whos blind), right before Lear runs away from the soldiers of Cordelia who are there to save him. |
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Term
| I am bound upon a wheel of fire. |
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Lear
resting in a bed Cordelia had made for him, with a doctor caring for him, right before Lear and Cordy make amends. |
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Term
| I fear I am not in my perfect mind. |
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Definition
Lear
talking to Cordelia as he rests in a bed in Dover, right before him and Cordelia make amends. |
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Term
| Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither; ripeness is all. |
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Definition
Edgar
After the battle takes place, and after Lear and Cordy are captured, Edgar speaks to Gloucester about fleeing. |
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Term
| We are not the first who with best meaning have incurred the worst. |
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Cordelia
To Lear, after they are captured but before anyone dies. |
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Term
| And take upon's the mystery of things, as if we were God's spies. |
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Definition
Lear
To Cordelia, after they are captured but before anyone dies. |
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Term
| Wipe thine eyes; the good years shall devour them, flesh and fell, ere they shall make us weep. |
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Definition
Lear
To Cordelia, after they are captured but before anyone dies. |
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Term
| Some good I mean to do, despite of mine own nature. |
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Definition
Edmund
saying this as he dies (from being stabbed), this is right before Cordelia and Lear die, but after Goneril and Regan die. |
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Term
| Howl, howl, howl! Oh, you are men of stones! |
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Definition
Lear
saying this as he holds the dead cordelia in his arms |
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Term
| Never, never, never, never, never! |
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Definition
Lear
Right before he himself dies, as he's looking at Cordelia. |
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Term
| Yea, there thou make'st me sad and mak'st me sin in envy that my lord Northumberland should be the father to so bless a son. |
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King Henry
In the beginning of the play, when Westmoreland and the King are exchanging news about the current battles. |
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| I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of day. |
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Hal
When he and Falstaff are talking for the first time in the play, right before Poins enters. |
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Term
| Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds to smother up his beauty from the world. |
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Hal
His first sililoquay, taking place right before Hotspur is talking with the King about his prisoners. |
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Term
| I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through, my sword hacked like a handsaw. |
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Falstaff
when he's explaining to Hal and Poins about how he lost the booty (that was a trick from Hal and Poins) |
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Term
| These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain open, palpable. |
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Hal
Calling Fallstaff out on his lies of being jumped by a bunch of people, it was really just Poins and Hal. |
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Term
| And yet there is a virtuous man whom I have ofter noted in they company, but I know not his name. |
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Falstaff
role playing with Hal, pretending to be the King, in light of a meeting Hal has to have with the real King the next day. |
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Term
| ...mincing poetry. 'Til like the forced gait of a suffling nag. |
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Hotspur
arguing with Glendower about music, this is right before Hotspur leaves to prepare to defeat King Henry. |
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Term
| Not an eye but is a-weary of thy commom sight, save mine which hath desired to see the more. |
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King Henry
in a meeting with Hal, right before word is sent to him that the war has begun and Hal will be sent out to war on Wednesday |
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Term
| How bloodily the sun begins to peer above yon bulky hill. The day looks pale at his distemperature. |
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King Henry
At the battle camp with Hal, right before King Henry requests to Worcester a peace offering (which is denied) |
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Term
| What is honor? A word. What is in that word "honor?" What is that "honor?" Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died on Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. |
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Definition
Falstaff
Right after he says goodbye to Hal for battle, and right before Worcester lies to Hotspur about what Henry said about peace. |
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Term
| My nephew's trespass may be well forgot; it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood. |
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Definition
Worcester
Telling Vernon about how he's gonna lie to Hotspur and tell him King Henry was mean about the Percys (which comes right after this interaction) |
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| No, Percy, thou art dust and food for- |
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Hotspur
Right before he dies and Falstaff takes credit for his death. |
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Term
| I could have better spared a better man. |
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Hal
Saying this after he sees Falstaff (seemingly) dead. |
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Term
| There is Percy. If your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. |
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Falstaff
Lying to Hal about killing Hotspur himself instead of Hal killing Hotspur, then they retreat. |
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Term
| Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed me. |
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Ariel
Right after Miranda is put to sleep by Prospero and right before we learn about Ariel's past: being rescued by Prospero |
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Term
| ...Wouldst give me water with berries in it, and teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night. |
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Caliban
Cursing Prospero, this is the first time we see Caliban and learn about his past with the island and Prospero. |
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Term
| You tought me language, and my profit on it is I know how to curse. |
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Caliban
Cursing Prospero for making him his slave, this is the first time we meet Caliband and learn about his past on the island. |
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Term
| Weeping again the king my father's wreck, this music crept by me upon the waters. |
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Ferdinand
Coming into the scene following Ariel, who's playing music and singing about Ferdinand's dead father, this is right before Miranda and Ferdinand meet. |
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Term
| Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. |
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Ariel
Singing a song to Ferdinand about his dead father, Ariel is enchanting Ferdinand and leading him to Miranda. They are just about to meet. |
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Term
| This swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light. |
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Prospero
Stiring up trouble between Firdinand and Himself, Prospero is trying to make sure Miranda doesn't give herself up too soon. |
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Term
| look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. |
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Sebastian
Mocking Gonzalo, this is the first scene where they are all on the beach together, right before all but Antonio and Sebastian fall asleep and Antonio persuades Sebastian to kill Alonso. |
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Term
| Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, and use of service, none; contract, succession, bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. |
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Gonzalo
talking about his Utopia, Sebastian and Antonio are mocking him. this is the first scene where they are all on the beach together, right before all but Antonio and Sebastian fall asleep and Antonio persuades Sebastian to kill Alonso. |
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| Here lies your brother, no better than the earth he lies upon, if he were that which now he's like. |
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Antonio
After everyone but Sebastian and Antonio are asleep, Antonio tries to convince Sebastian to kill Alonso, right before Ariel comes with the music and wakes everyone up |
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| There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. |
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Trinculo
As Trinculo meets Caliban, and right before Stephano enters and they all get drunk together. |
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| Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. |
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Caliban
being aluded by ariel, caliban, stephano, and trinculio drunkenly follow the music ariel makes and then they plan to kill prospero. |
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Term
| the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in thy blood |
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prospero
this is right before prospero summons the spirits of the gods and goddesses who hold a wonderful banquet for the love of ferdinand and miranda. |
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| Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air. |
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Prospero
as he sends the spirits of the banquet away, remembering the plot against his life by Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. he will catch them in the act soon with the help of ariel. |
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Term
| The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. |
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Prospero
as he sends the spirits of the banquet away, remembering the plot against his life by Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. he will catch them in the act soon with the help of ariel. |
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Term
| We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. |
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Definition
Prospero
as he sends the spirits of the banquet away, remembering the plot against his life by Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. he will catch them in the act soon with the help of ariel. |
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Term
| Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet with my nobler reason against my fury do I take part. The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. |
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Prospero
telling ariel to release the King and his party from their captivity to help wrap up the play |
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| I have bedimmed the noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, and twixt the green sea and the azured vault set roaring war. |
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Prospero
after telling ariel to release the King and his party from their captivity to help wrap up the play |
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| I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. |
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Prospero
after telling ariel to release the King and his party from their captivity to help wrap up the play |
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Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beautious mankind is! Oh, brave new world that has such people in it!
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Miranda
Meeting all the other humans, she is impressed and everyone is making amends at the end of the play. |
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| This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. |
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Prospero
As everyone is making amends and planning to return to the world the next morning. |
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Term
| Now our charms are all overthrown, and what strength I have mine own which is most faint |
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Prospero
talking to the audience in an epilogue, he asks the audience to set him free. |
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| As you from crimes would pardoned be, let your indulgence set me free. |
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Prospero
talking to the audience in an epilogue, he asks the audience to set him free. |
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