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Ghost

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“I do haunt you still’

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Possessed by the devil

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‘Some fellows, they say, are possessed with the devil, but this fellow were able to possess the greatest devil and make him worse’

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Murderer

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‘Notorious murderer’

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Poison

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‘Foul melancholy will poison all his goodness’

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5
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Money

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‘Take your devils’

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Rude

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‘She resembles an abortive hedgehog’

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Apricots

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‘I have brought some apricocks’

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Rude again

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‘You are still abusing women’

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Snake

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‘You are an impudent snake’

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Letter

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‘I shall send a letter that shall make her brothers gall o’erflow their livers’

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Stars

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‘Whom we may read in the stars’

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Magic

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‘Some sorcery’

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Worth

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‘Prefer a man merely for worth without these shadows of wealth’

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14
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Raised

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‘Now this act I am certain to be raised and men that paint weeds to the life are praised’

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False hearts

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‘False hearts speak fair to those the intend most mischief’

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16
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Poisoned pills

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‘Why dost thou wrap thy poisoned pills in gold and sugar’

17
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Cease to grieve

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‘Cease to grieve for that which cannot be recovered’

18
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Cruelty

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‘Go no further in your cruelty’

19
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Children dying

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‘How have these offended’

20
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Remorse

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‘Do you not weep’

21
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Wished duchess to be alive

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‘Return fair soul from darkness and lead mine out of this sensible hell’

22
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Crying

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‘Where were these penitent fountains while she was living’

23
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Basilisks

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‘Fellow doth brews basilisks ins eyes’

24
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Julia

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‘I will work on this creature’

25
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Penitent

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‘O penitence, let me turkey taste thy cup that throws men down only to raise them up’

26
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Death

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‘My death is plotted’

27
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Purge blood only way to cure darkness

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‘Black deeds must be cured with death’

28
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Killing Antonio

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‘The man I would have saved bove mine own life’

29
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Heart break

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‘Break heart’

30
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Fate

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‘Fate moves swift’

31
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Redemption of duchess

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‘When thou killst thy sister thou took’st from justice her most equal balance’

32
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Revenge is perfect

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‘My revenge is perfect: sink thou main cause of my undoing’

33
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Meaningless of life

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‘Thou which stood’st like a huge pyramid begun upon a large and ample base shallot end in a little point- a kind of nothing’

34
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B not remembered

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‘Let me be laid by and never thought of’

35
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Gloomy world

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‘This gloomy world- in what shadow or deep pit of darkness doth womanist and fearful mankind live’

36
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Life as a journey

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‘Mine is another voyage’

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