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Betrayal

Prepare there! The Duke is coming.

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Vaux, calling as to Officers offstage
Prepare there!
The Duke is coming. See the barge be ready,
And fit it with such furniture as suits
The greatness of his person.
Buckingham
Nay, Sir Nicholas,
Let it alone. My state now will but mock me.Metonymy & Personification
When I came hither,
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Act 2
Scene 1
Line 116

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Can this be so? Did Angelo so leave her?

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Isabella
Can this be so? Did Angelo so leave her?Pysma
Duke, as Friar
Left her in her tears and dried not one
of them with his comfort, swallowed his vows
whole,Ellipsis & Metaphors
pretending in her discoveries of dishonor; in
few, bestowed her on her own lamentation,
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Act 3
Scene 1
Line 250

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