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    A literary riddle.

    The proponent writes a small part of the poem, play or prose text and the other players must guess. Of course the text has to be in English, and the original preferably in English too. The winner proposes the next riddle, and so on.

    I`m starting with:

    "The quality of mercy is not strained.

    It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

    Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:

    It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

    'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes

    The throned monarch better than his crown."

    Who wrote this and what text is this?

    Good luck!
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Snif!Snif!

    No one?

    Too easy? Too difficult?

    No questions?
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    ouch too difficult !!
    it may never try
    but when it does it sigh
    it is just that
    good
    it fly

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    Francis Bacon in his play Merchant of Venice.

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    You got it, Ecurb . But please correct the name of the author before proposing the next riddle.
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Well you tried anyway. I tried to answer you before. LitNet is specially difficult today, on account of the change of layout, maybe.
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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