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The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.

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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Thinking
Bird
Cheeks
Juliet
Eyes
Stream
Lamp
Stars
Regions
Brightness
Heaven
Streams
Cheek
Eye
Birds
Daylight
Night
Bright
Lamps
Would
Shame
Doth
Think
Sing
Region
Airy

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