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... night . The god Mercury is lying in ambush , awaiting him , in the form of Sosia himself , whom he is impersonating to aid Jupiter's de- signs on the general's wife . Sosia , dimly seeing someone lurking ahead of him , becomes alarmed ...
... night . The god Mercury is lying in ambush , awaiting him , in the form of Sosia himself , whom he is impersonating to aid Jupiter's de- signs on the general's wife . Sosia , dimly seeing someone lurking ahead of him , becomes alarmed ...
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... night , two nights , three nights , Ten nights ( and this was the harvest night ) . I never saw her , yet I traveled ; Faithful as the cock who marks each day the dawn , I carved my marks on the bench . I was to come a hundred times ...
... night , two nights , three nights , Ten nights ( and this was the harvest night ) . I never saw her , yet I traveled ; Faithful as the cock who marks each day the dawn , I carved my marks on the bench . I was to come a hundred times ...
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... Night , with his shrewd challenge to puritanism : " Dost thou think , because thou art virtu- ous , there shall be no more cakes and ale ? " We must not slight the great roles for women . Rosalind in As You Like It , Olivia in Twelfth Night ...
... Night , with his shrewd challenge to puritanism : " Dost thou think , because thou art virtu- ous , there shall be no more cakes and ale ? " We must not slight the great roles for women . Rosalind in As You Like It , Olivia in Twelfth Night ...
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