"Duchess of York: Welcome, my son: who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new come spring?Duke of Aumerle: Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not: God knows I had as lief be none as one.Duke of York: Well, bear you well in this new spring of time, Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime."
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