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Opening Quotations

A wild beast there is in Ægypt, called orix, which the Ægyptians say, doth stand full against the dog starre when it riseth, looketh wistly upon it, and testifieth after a sort by sneesing, a kind of worship.…

—Philemon Holland.

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Did’st thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body: this world is like her little turf of grass; and the heaven o’er our heads, like her looking-glass, only gives us a miserable knowledge of the small compass of our prison.…

—John Webster.

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Provoke them not, fair sir, with tempting words; the heavens are gracious.…

—Thomas Kyd.