half-workers

Updated: May 7, 2025

Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers? says Posthumus when he hears of Imogen's guilt. We are all bastards; And that most venerable man, which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamped. Some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother seemed The Dian of that time; so doth my wife The nonpareil of this O vengeance, vengeance!

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