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65 Cards in this Set
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penthouse
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overhanging roof
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make stand
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stand
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Venus' pigeons
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irreverent reference to the doves that draw the chariot of the mythological goddes of love, Venus
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obliged
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contracted
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ever holds
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is always true
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untread
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retrace
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measures
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paces
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younger
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younger son
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prodigal
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wasteful
the prodigal son of Luke 15, who "wasted his substance" |
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scarfed
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adorned with flags and pennants
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overweathered
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weatherbeaten
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ribs
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timbers
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your patience
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please grant me your patience
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my long abode
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your long wairt for me
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father
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father-in-law to be
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strumpet wind
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gusty wind
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tongue
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sound your voice
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exchange
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change, through disguise, from woman to boy
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pretty
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ingenious, clever, skillful
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Cupid
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Roman god of love
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hold a candle
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illuminate
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good sooth
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in truth
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light
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unrespectable; illumied
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tis an office of discovery
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the function of torchbearing is to bring to light, or discover
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garnish
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dress, costume
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close
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dark, secretive
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doth play the runaway
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passes quickly
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albeit
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although
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by my hood
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a mild oath
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gentle
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gentile
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Beshrew me
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curse me (a mild oath)
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but
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unless
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gentleman
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Jessica in disguise
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presently
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immediately
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on 't
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of it
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several
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various
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all as blunt
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as blunt (straightforward) as lead is blunt (dull)
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withal
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together with the picture
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back again
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again
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shows of dross
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apperances of worthlessness
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virgin hue
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Silver is the color of the moon, whose goddess, Diana is patron of chastity
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nor...nor
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neither...nor
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aught
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anything
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rated by the estimation
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valued in accord with your reputation
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afeard of my deserving
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afraid that I do not deserve
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were
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would be
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disabling
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discrediting
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Hyrcanian deserts
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wild regions south of the Caspian Sea
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vasty
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vast
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watery kingdom
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the ocean
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Spets
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spits
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spirits
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persons
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like
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likely
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rib
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enclose
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cerecloth
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grave clothes
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Being ten times under valued to tried gold
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since silver is worth one tenth the value of proven gold
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insculped upon
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engraved on the surface
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form
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picture
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carrion death
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a skull
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glisters
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glitter
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But
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only
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enscrolled
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on a scroll rather than in the person of Portia
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farewel, heat, and welcom frost
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an inversion of the saying "farewell, frost"
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part
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depart
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complexion
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temperamet; color of the face
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