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Absence: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd; But I shall, in a more continuate time,— O. iii. 4

Strike off this score of absence.

Lovers'

What! keep a week away? seven days and nights ? Eight score eight hours, and lovers' absent hours, - More tedious than the dial eight score times?— 0. iii. 4

O weary reckoning! O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless; Lest growing ruinous the building fall,— T. G. v. 4

And leave no memory of what it was.