Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king w…

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Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no. ✨ William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, p.370
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