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"Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new."
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Source: William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona”, p.220
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