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Of and in all these things,I have dream'd that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
For I have dream'd that the law they are under now is enough.
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If otherwise, all came but to ashes of dung,If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd!
Then indeed suspicion of death.
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Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I should die now,Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
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