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to stop or discontinue
- By-and-by I come:— To cease thy suit and leave me to my grief: To-morrow will I send.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — Capulet's Garden (79% in)
- Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say It lightens.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — Capulet's Garden (61% in)
- Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, A sleeping potion; which so took effect As I intended, for it wrought on her The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo That he should hither come as this dire night, To help to take her from her borrow'd grave, Being the time the potion's force should cease.5.3 — Act 5 Scene 3 — A churchyard; in it a Monument.... (82% in)
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