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(1534)
'It cannot be,' quoth she, 'that so much guile'-- (1535)

She would have said 'can lurk in such a look;' (1536)

But Tarquin's shape came in her mind the while, (1537)

And from her tongue 'can lurk' from 'cannot' took: (1538)

'It cannot be' she in that sense forsook,
(1539)
And turn'd it thus, 'It cannot be, I find, (1540)

But such a face should bear a wicked mind:

William Shakespeare. W. G. Clark. W. Aldis Wright. The Globe Shakespeare. New York. Nelson Doubleday, Inc.

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