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May Day

George Chapman

May Day is an early 17th-century stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman that was first published in 1611.

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“For your behaviour, let it be free and negligent, not clogged with ceremony or observance; give no man honour, but upon equal terms; for look how much thou giv'st any man above that, so much thou tak'st from thyself.”

George Chapman May Day

May Day (1611), Act I, scene i.

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