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The Lamp and the Bell by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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She is not quicker.

BEA. Nay, but she grows cool
Whilst I grow hot, Carlotta, and freezes me
Ere I can melt her!

FRA. Is it true, Bianca?

BIA. 'Tis true I win from her.--Although not always.

GRA. What did I come here for?--I must go back
To where I started, and think of it again! [Exit Grazia.]

CAR. [Calling after her.]
Are you sure that you remember where you started?
-- -- The woman hath a head like a sieve.

LAU. And yet,
You may be sure 'tis nothing more than the thimble
Of the matter she's forgotten. I never knew her
Mislay the thread or the needle of a thing.

BIA. We must study now, Beatrice, we really must.
We have not opened a book since yesterday.

LAU. La, as for me, I have not opened a book
Since yesteryear,--I'd rather open a vein!

CAR. Lessons,--troth, I remember well those lessons.
As for what I learned,--troth, that's a different matter,
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