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\speaker{Brassbound}It will teach other scoundrels to respect widows and 
orphans. Do you forget there is such a thing as justice?
\speaker{Lady Cicely}\shortdirection{gaily shaking out the finished coat}
Oh, if you are going to dress yourself in ermine and call yourself
Justice, I give you up. You are just your uncle over again; only he
gets \pounds5000 a year for it, and you do it for nothing.
\longdirection{She holds up the coat to see whether any further repairs
are needed but, seeing none, folds it carefully away.}
\speaker{Brassbound \shortdirection{sulkily}} You twist my words very
cleverly. [taken from \emph{Captain Brassbound's Conversion \textsc{ii}}]
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\speaker{Macbeth}Prithee, peace!\\
   I dare do all that may become a man;\\
   Who dares do more is none.
\speaker{Lady Macbeth}\phantomline{Who dares do more is none.}What beast 
was't then\\
   That made you break this enterprise to me?\\
   When you durst do it, then you were a man;\\
   And to be more tha what you were, you would\\
   Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place\\
   Did then adhere, and you would make both;\\
   They have made themselves, and that their fitness now\\
   Does unmake you.
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