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  • No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

    William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed ; in Two Volumes”, p.267