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Preface to Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson

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Act IV Scene III. (IV. Iii. 2-3.)

Leave me to myself to-night;
     For I have need of many orisons.

Juliet plays most of her pranks under the appearance of religion: perhaps Shakespeare meant to punish her hypocrisy.

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