'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art…

William Shakespeare
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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal. ✨ William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, p.428
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