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"You give me back. Phœbus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phœbus, is my own."
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BorrowingWhat question can be here? Your own true heart — Borrowing
"What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part: That may be claimd again which was but lent, And should be yielded with no discontent, Nor surely can we find herein a wrong, That it was left us to enjoy it long."
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