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"Awè bleteth after lomb, Lhouth after calvè cu; Bulluc sterteth, buckè verteth, Murie sing cuccu!"
"This Nicholas anon leet flee a fart, As greet as it had been a thonder-dent."
"A man may break a word with you, sir; and words are but wind; Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."
"GLENDOWER: I say the earth did shake when I was born. [...] The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble. HOTSPUR: O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire And not in fear of your nativity. Diseasèd nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. Oft the teeming earth Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb, which for enlargement striving Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth Our grandma earth, having this distemperature, In passion shook."
"CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments? FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir. CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail. FIRSTMUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir? CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know."