By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be…

Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labour's Lost." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. Love's Labour's Lost. 1597, England, UK, act 4, sc. 3.

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