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Question
Copy the exclamations from the play. (At least 5)
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Solution
- How boring!
- Halt!
- Let the court begin!
- The first complainant!
- Justice!
- Oh, Most Great King!
- O king!
- A life for life!
- The merchant must be hanged!
- O Noble King!
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