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A perfect friend, 235. Appearances not to be trust
ed, 29. Bewildering power of applause, 30. Cow-
ards boastful, 112. Embarrassment of debt, 304.
Fair terms deceitful, 549. False hair, 266. Friend-
ship equal to any sacrifice, 239. Loquacity, 345.
Loss regained, 345. Mirth a garment, 380. Mis-
trust, love's treason, 355. Mistrust, treason to
love, 385. Modesty dislikes noise, 388. Ornament,
418. Portrait, a perfect, 436. Ring, its value de
pends on giver, 477. Uncertainty, 569. Ventures
repeated, 581.

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Bastard. Philip Faulconbridge, natural

son of King Richard the First. K. J.
Action enjoined, 8. Courage, exhortation to, 107.
Courage, where strong, 103. Crimes beyond mer
cy, 121. Cruelty easily punished, 122. Death in-
discriminate, 137. Defiance of a braggart, 149.
Defiant words ridiculed, 619. Desertion of doubt-
ful friends, 155. Example inspires, 195. Excuse
for great grief, 260. Fear fed by rumors, 213.
Growing power of selfishness, 488. Havoc and
war desired, 103. Ignorance of new made honor,
280. Inglorious compromise, 86. 1.eanness laughed
at, 338. Love an excuse, 347. Murder a robbery,
392. Power crouching, 438. Private grudges, 262.
Prophecy of evil, 448. Public quarrels, 454. Re-
spectability desired, 469. Revenge must be prompt,
475. Soldier of honor, 505. Time bald, 552. Vil-
lainy easily punished, 584.

Beatrice.-Niece to Leonato.

M. A.

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Biron. A Lord attending on the King of
Navarre.
L. L.

A faulty woman incurable, 611. A gallant described,
241. Cupid described, 125. Daintiness, 128. Ex-
cessive study, 525. Foolish conduct in love, 3.
Fop described, 110. Hindrance to study, 526.
Inadequate praise, 439. Keen sense of a lover, 361.
Love speaking, 358. Love wanton, 359. Marplot,
369. Necessity defies oaths, 403. Ostentation, 418.
Perjury. 427. Plagiarism, 431. Plodding tire.
some, 431. Proof of sincerity demanded, 497.
Rebellion against austerity, 35. Sensualism, 489.
Simplicity of expression best, 12. Witling, 609.
Woman's eyes, 202.

Bolingbroke.-Duke of Hereford, son to
John of Gaunt, afterwards King
Henry IV.
R. II.

A desire to escape from conscience, 94. A dissolute
son, 510. Bad advisers, 12. Civil disabilities, 164.

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A wondrous dream, 177. An ear for music, 398.
An exposition of sleep, 502. Self conceit, 87.
Brutus, Junius. A Tribune of the peo-
ple.
C.
Humility's napless vesture, 286. Moderation pun-
ished, 387. People infatuated by ingratitude, 311.
Tyrant, 568.
Brutus, Marcus. A conspirator against
Julius Cæsar.
J. C.

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An awaking conscience, 94. Artistic murder, 392.
Bribes dishonor the great, 61. Cæsar's ghost start-
les Brutus, 244. Choler defied, 77. Close consul-
tation, 100. Conjugal fidelity, 216. Conspiracy,
how hidden, 97. Cooling friendship ceremonious,
70. Covetousness destroys friendship, 112. Dan-
ger of the ides of March, 294. Dead, mighty, 132.
Death, 134. Death ambition's debt, 130. Difficul
ties between friends, 163. Early rising condemned,
477. False magnanimity, 366. Farewell to Cas-
sius, 208. Honesty fearless, 277. Honor more
precious than life, 279. Ladder to ambition, 21.
Opportunity like the tide, 416. Pity drives out
pity, 430. Portia's suicide, 533. Prosperity dan-
gerous, 448. Quarrels of friends, 453. Signs of
affection withheld, 13. Sleep's leaden mace, 502.
Sleep like honey-dew, 503. Speech in defense of
assassination, 519. Successful treachery, 564. Sug-
gestions of jealousy, 3.3. Suicide cowardly, 530.
Suspicion to be crushed, 538. The tide of fortune,
233. Vindictiveness, 535.

Caius Marcius.- A Roman patrician. C.
A protest against dissimulation, 171. A wife's devo-
tion, 160. A would-be poisoner, 433. Assumed
humility, 285. Constancy prayed for, 98. Courage,
107. Dissimulation impossible to the noble, 171.
Extremity the true test, 199. Fidelity during ab
sence, 2. Firmness invoked, 218. Great misfort-
unes, 384.
Greatness in disguise, 167. Hospital-
ity remembered, 284. Indignation at popular ar-
rogance, 305. Injustice afiliates with foes, 312.
Intrepidity defies danger, 321. Memory tires, 374.
Mobs mutable, 336. M ther respected, 391. Nat-
ural affection, 13. Outspoken speech, 520. Policy
of dissimulation, 171. Popular concessions im-
politic, 88. Popular government rebuked, 252.
Sncer at imperativeness, 300. The people, 426.
Truckling, 565. Voices of nature, 420. Wisdom
of true friendship, 239.

Caliban. A savage and deformed slave.

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All-pervading malaria, 367. Blessings of civiliza
tion cursed, 80. Clownish devotion, 160, Miser-
able music, 399. Secret power of books, 55.
Capulet. The head of a noble house at
variance with the Montagues. R. J.
Blabbing day, 132. Death changes everything, 135.
Death of an only child, 139. Death sudden, 138.
Passionate abuse, 567. Spring treads on winter,
523. Too copious tears, 5.6.
Cardinal Pandulph.—The Pope's Legate.
K. J.
Alliances dangerous, 129. Crime cumulative, 119.
Evils worst on departure, 193. Lust overreaching,

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Bitter end of ambition, 20. Culmination of great-
ness, 256. Dangerous ambition, 19. Defeat of
ambition bewailed, 20. Earthly glory short lived,
247. Expression of contempt, 101. Far reaching
malignity, 367. Fidelity, 216. Killing disappoint.
ment, 165. Malicious censurers, 69. Matchless
peace of a good conscience, 95. Patriotism, 423.
Stubbornness, 525. Sycophancy, 541. Vanity of
human hopes, 577. Virtue in a fool, 587.
Cassius.

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J. C.

A conspirator against Julius
Cæsar.
Abstract of all villainy, 353. A friend's infirmities,
308. Crime suggests crime, 121. Death always at
command, 134. Declining affection, 13. Envy has
a good memory, 190. Fate in our own hands, 209.
Good companionship essential, 84. How conspir-
acies are formed, 96. Masterly inactivity, 302.
Overpowering greatness, 257. Portents interpret-
ed, 434. Sincerity never dangerous, 497. Small
beginnings dangerous, 46. Suicide, 532. Super-
stition suspicious, 535. Tyrants, 568. Tyranny
shaken off, 568.

Claudio. A young gentleman.

M. M.
Daring, 131. Hope a medicine, 283. Horrible un-
certainties of death, 133. Persuasion, 428. The
fear of death, 138. Tyranny of new rulers, 567.
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Churlishness no way to heaven, 78. Good manners
in one place ridiculous in another, 104. Hospi-
tality despised, 284. Laborer's contentment, 103.
Natural philosophy, 429.

Countess of Rousillon. - Mother to Ber-
tram.
A. W.
Affected sorrow, 516. Heirloom testamentary, 272.
Maiden's tears, 544. Relation of heredity to ac
quirements, 274. Silence recommended, 494. Skill
gives immortality, 499. Tears, 544.
Cranmer. An agent of the King, after-
wards Archbishop of Canterbury.

II. VIII.
Accusers and accused, 7. Goodness inspires awe,
250. Meekness, 373. Prophecy of Elizabeth's
greatness, 447. Refutation of calumny, 66.
Decius Brutus.- A conspirator. J. C.

Flatterers

Ambition fostered by conspirators, 20.
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A perfect man, 367. A woman's infatuation, 307.
Bad news hated, 405. Bad news should tell itself,
406. Burial, high Roman, 65. Celerity admired by
negligent, 63. Constancy like marble, 99. Death
a desired pinch, 138. Death called for, 138. Death
rather than censure, 69. Desperate railing, 456.
Ever growing greatness, 255. False swearing, 533.
Foolishness of wishers, 605. Homage to a hand,
267. Immortality longed for, 298. Impatience a
sin, 299. Indiguity resented, 306. Language of
infatuation, 307. Love alike in queen and maid,
351. Lying no proof of love, 3. Protestations not
trusted, 449. Rival, 477. Sallad days, 328, 624.
Sorrow becoming the strong, 511. Suicide, 530,
532. Suicide extolled, 531. Sweating labor, 295.
Sycophancy, 541. The cant of detraction, 160.
The knot of life untied, 143. Unexhausted bounty,

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Ability to read, a vanity, 457. Ago destroys wit,
14. Charge to a watchman, 598. Contamination,
100. Inevitable subordinate position, 436. Mo-
tives, lesser, 391. Unquenchable desire to be an
ass, 33.
Domitius Enobarbus.-A friend of An-
tony.
A. C.
Celerity in dying, 182. Danger in extremity, 130.
Face of woman, 203. Grief atoning, 259. Judg.
ment, 328. Leaky friends abandoned, 1. Loyalty
in defeat, 362. Luxuriant grandeur, 253. Mar-
riage strangles friendship, 371. Matters great and
small, 372. Overwhelming regret, 461. Self up-
braidings, 466. Superlative devotion, 162. Tears
in an onion, 545. Voluptuousness, 590.
Duke of Buckingham.
II. VIII.
Ambitious meddling, 372. Betrayal purchased by
gold, 47. Cunning detected, 124. Generous for-
giveness, 230. Inconstancy of friends, 236. Indis-
putable proofs, 447. Prudence good policy, 450.
Purpose not disclosed, 451. Resignation to un-
merited death, 143.

Duke of Buckingham.

R. III.

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An honorable reputation, 467. Effect of conversa-
tion on journeys, 104. Extremities presage de-
liverance, 198. Hope related to joy, 283. Liar
hated of God, 341. Native tongue, 555. Stabs of
slander incurable, 499. Unconcern, 569. Wild
times, 102.

Earl of Northumberland.-An enemy to

the King.
H. IV., 2 pt.
Anxiety for news, 405. Bringer of bad news, 406.
Desperation conquers indecision, 158. Grief weak.
ens, 261. Popular commotion, 83. Preparation
needful, 442. Suspicion's ready tongue, 538. Sym-
pathy, 541. Tattler cursed, 542. Usurpation, 570.
Earl of Salisbury.

R. II.

A rainy sunset, 534. Despair resulting from delay,
142. Misfortune foretold, 247. Sudden overthrow,
419.

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Earl of Warwick. Of the King's party.
H. IV., 2 pt.
Mistrust cowardly, 385. Murder traitorous, 396.
New servants needed, 372. Rumor doubles, 480.
Use of cast-off followers, 224.

Earl of Warwick. Of the Duke of
York's party.
H. VI., 3 pt.
Arrogance harmless, 31. Blind revenge, 473. Brok-
en alliance, 17. Cases altered by circumstances,
19. Death takes no note of pomp, 141. Difficulty
of decision, 146. Fall of greatness, 256. Half-
hearted poor fighters, 267. Power of impious.
ness, 300. Recognition of the atonement, 35. Rest
indispensable, 469. Surrender of territory, 549.
Suspicion well founded, 538. The past interprets
the future, 240. The piercing power of the eye,
201. Transformation of a friend into a foe, 235.
True love, 348.

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Cowardice abandons the field, 114. Equality in di-
vision, 175. Eyes waxing dim, 202. Fear hasten-
ing flight, 222. Ignorance of language, 336. In-
firmities of age, 14. Inspiration needed for success,
318. Politic silence, 495. Poor fighting for rebel-
lion, 458. Power of a sweet tongue, 556. The ef-
fect of discouragement, 166. The fighting of rebels
a shadow, 218.

Edmund of Langley.— Duke of York,
and uncle to the King.
R. II.
Crisis of misgovernment, 385. Indignant loyalty,
362. Misery insulted, 383. Treachery, 560.
Edward.- Earl of March, afterwards King
H. VI., 3 pt.
Inconsolable grief, 261. Portents, heavenly, 435.
Uncertainty, 569. Villainy a necessity, 403.
Eleanor.- Duchess of Gloster.

Edward IV.

H. VI., 2 pt.
Deserved punishment, 450. Shame independent of
symbols, 492. Woman's ambition stronger than
man's, 22.

Elizabeth.- Queen of Edward IV. R. III.
Dead children hover over us, 77. Extenuation of ar-
rogance, 32. Grief profound, 260. Heart-break.
ing sorrow, 513. Misfortunes foreseen, 228. Moth-
er's right to see her children, 390. Pity invoked of
stones, 430. Rebuke of brusqueness, 64. Re-
morseless vengeance, 578. Ruin foreseen, 480.
Simplicity, 496. Upbraidings, 571.
Emilia.-Wife of Iago.

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Gratiano.-Friend to Antonio and Bassa-
nio.
M. V.
Envy sharper than steel, 191. Excessive care, 67.
Opinion, 416. Peevishness, 425. Pleasures of an-
ticipation, 27. Prodigal, 446. Self-conceit, 88.
Silence commended, 494. Silence not always wis-
dom, 495. Small hypocrisy, 292. Superservice-
ableness, 535. Transmigration, 558.
Gremio. A suitor to Bianca.
Boasting of a great dower, 176. Female sweetness,
540. Inexcusable irreverence, 322. Petrucio's
mad marriage, 370.
Griffith.-Gentleman usher to Queen Kath-
H. VIII.

arine.

T. S.

Death of Wolsey, 141. Happiness of obscurity, 414.
Virtues written in water, 368.

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Helena.

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A gentlewoman, protected by
the Countess.
A. W.
Cause and effect, 470. Contradictions of character,
104. Fortune in our own hands, 232. Great
changes in a short time, 72. Love admires fools,
346. Lust playing with what it loathes, 364. Min-
isters of omnipotence, 416. Remedies in ourselves,
462. Restoration of health, 271. Time's flight, 553.
Unrequited love, 359. Varied epithets, 192. Weak
things chosen of God, 372. Women cannot fight
for love, 359.

Henry Beaufort. Great uncle to the
King, Bishop of Winchester, and
afterwards Cardinal. H. VI., 1 pt.
Priestly arrogance, 32. Success from God, 529.
Wife's influence, 603.

Henry.-Earl of Richmond, a youth.

H. VI., 3 pt.

Civil war, 594. Remorselessness, 461. Reproaches
unanswered, 467. Sweetness of wearing a crown,
122. Tears impossible, 544. Vengeance, 580.
Will, 604.

Hamlet.—Son to the former, and nephew Henry. Earl of Richmond, afterwards

to the present King.

H.

Acting instruc-

Accountability in madness, 364.
tions, 11. A disturbed imagination, 297. A pict-
ure of a friend, 235. Appropriate action, 7. A
smiling villain, 583. Bitter revenge, 475. Bitter
self-upbraidings, 466. Caution against self-decep-
tion, 145. Coxcombs, 117. Dead forgotten, 134.
Death, strict, 137. Description of adultery, 9.
Destiny, divinity in, 159. Disapproval of hints,
276. Discontent with everything, 166. Dust of
the dead, 133. Emphatic grief, 259. Extravagant
grief, 259. Fate irresistible, 209. Fear disclaim-
ed, 212. Flattery not for the poor, 220. Fortitude
exulted in, 230. Frailty of woman, 234. Guilt un-
kenneled, 263. Heartlessness reproved, 8. Hidden
shame, 491. Honesty remarkable, 278. Honor,
argument for, 278. Indecorum, 305. Independ
ence, 305. Inimitable excellence, 195. Innocence,
stoical, 313. Invincible determination, 159. Invo
cation of Denmark's ghost, 244. Language of
ennui, 190. Madness limited, 365. Midnight ap-
palling, 379. Mother, 390. Mother upbraided,
466. Mysteries abundant, 400. Night, 409. No
escape from calumny, 67. Old men described,
375. Partial madness, 365. Petard hoisting its
engineer, 428. Poor in thanks, 549. Power of act-
ors over conscience, 94. Power of habit, 266. Pro-
test against being a tool, 557. Qualities of true
greatness, 257. Rank disregarded, 456. Retribu-
tion, 471. Revenge swift, 475. Self-flattery a bar to
repentance, 465. Silence invoked, 495. Smiling and
villainy, 504. Soliloquy, 506. Soliloquy at Yorick's
grave, 506. Sorrow passing show, 515. Sponges,
human, 521. Stars, 523. Suicide prohibited, 533.
Sycophancy, 540. Sycophants used, 541. Tears
of hypocrisy, 545. Test of madness, 365. The
perfection of man, 368. Thought gives character,

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King Henry VII.

Cruel tyranny, 567. Prayer, 440.
Sunset, 534. Valor, 576.
Henry.- Prince of Wales,

the King.

R. III.
Strategy, 525.

eldest son to
H. IV., 1 pt.

Brave ambition, 19. Courage respected, 108. Death
a debt, 134. Deceptive appearances, 29. Frivolity
a sign of death, 137. Pain of human glory, 247.
Power grasped prematurely, 438 Pretensions
tested, 442. Reformation obliterates, 460. Royst
erers careless of time, 480. Sick with joy, 493.
Signs of death, 138. Sins of youth exaggerated,
624. Subterfuges of a braggart, 57. Terms of
contempt, 101. Too numerous holidays, 277.
Truth, 565. Unfelt wounds, 621. Weaknesses
of greatness, 256. Youth's vices redeemed, 624.
Henry Percy.- Surnamed Hotspur.

H. IV.

A rebuke of foppery, 227. Bargaining, strictness in,
40. Bold defiance, 149. Calling up spirits, 521.
Curiosity, 125. Danger of accomplices, 4. Death
chosen before defeat, 148. Flattery disowned, 219.
Foolishness of noticing portents, 434. Half-heart-
edness, 267. Honor easily attained, 279. Impa-
tience in enterprise, 300. Insufferable bores, 55.
Life too short for frivolity, 239. Love in war, 356.
Mouth-filling oath, 412. No time for sickness, 493.
Poetry excruciating, 432. Quarrels over division,
175. Recklessness, 459. Sickness endangers en-
terprise, 493. Success independent, 529. Swear-
ing, 540. Thought, 550. Truth shames the devil,
160. Unslumbering upbraidings, 466. Usurpa-

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Herbert de Burgh.-Chamberlain to the
King.
K. J.
All-absorbing news, 405. Bad news, 405. Crimes
excite the populace, 123. Evil purpose overcome,
451. Innocence can stand any test, 313. Inno-
cence defends itself, 313. Pity, 429. Special provi-
dence, 449. Undying affection, 14.

Iachimo. - An Italian gentleman, and a
friend to Philario.
Cym.

Base insinuation, 317. Discernment claimed, 165.
Guilt enfeebles, 263. Paragon, 420. Perfect sculp
ture, 485. Perfection, human, 426. Sleep the ape
of death, 503. Sluttery, 504.
Iago. Othello's ancient.

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Alarming anger, 24. Caution against jealousy, 322.
Circumstantial evidence, 483. Conscience forbids
murder, 393. Consummate hypocrisy, 283. Con-
tent and poverty, 102. Credulity, 118. Good name
precious, 400. Guilt speaks without a tongue, 265.
Hate covered by hypocrisy, 28J. Hypocrisy stereo-
typed, 293. Imagination destroys, 297. Insidious
sin, 497. Insinuation destroys, 317. Jealousy and
trifles, 324. Jealousy meditating revenge, 323.
Kisses betray, 333. Lost reputation, 467. Love
bewitching, 352. Patience, 423. Pleasure shortens
time, 431. Poverty rich, 437. Power of the will,
77. Preferment, 441. Pretended honesty, 278.
Quarrels caused by drink, 179. Sinister service,
491. Slander a thief, 499. Slave's right to thought,
551. Sleep betrays secrets, 503. Sufficient tongue,
556. Suicide a weakness, 530. Suicide, things
better, 533. Suspicion hard to excite, 538. Syco.
phaney, 540. Time's deliverance sure, 553. Volu-
bility, 590. Will, its power, 604. Women, 615.

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A cry for justice, 328. An appeal to conscience, 94.
Angels weeping, 24. Arrogance of brief authority,
36. Chastity more precious than life, 75. Coura-
geous goodness, 250. Crime unlooked for, 120.
Curative power of authority, 36. Devilish mercy.
376. Heaven's judgment, 328. Hypocrisy foul
within, 200. Hypocrisy in the great, 291. Hypoc
risy threatened with exposure, 293. Ignorance
and power, 438. Impending madness, 365. Inde-
cision, 305. Intentions not punishable, 320. In-
tercessory prayers, 440. Invective on a cowardly
brother, 131. Jests by great men, 325. Mercy,
377. Mercy becoming, 375. Mercy, how inspired,
Patience invoked, 422. Power, tyrannical

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John of Gaunt. — Duke of Lancaster, and
uncle to the King.
R. II.
Absolute content, 102. Circumstances change opin-
ions, 73. Disgrace of ancestry bemoaned, 50. En-
gland's grandeur and disgrace, 188. Final appeal
in quarrels, 454. Hope in old age, 282. Impetu
osity short lived, 301. Life not of man, 343. Mak-
ing the best of misery, 384. Necessity a teacher,
403. Providence appealed to, 449. Success in-
voked, 529. Watching makes men gaunt, 241.
John Talbot.
Cowardice, invective on, 115. Fear defeats, 214.
Heroic death, 137. Revenge threatened, 475.
Shame of defeat, 148. Soldiers' stomachs, 505.
Treatment of prisoners, 445. War's attendants,

596.

H. VI., 1 pt.

T. G.

Julia. Beloved of Porteus.
Deceitful onths, 413, Immaculate sincerity, 467.
Love not to be impeded, 346. Refuge from slan-
der, 499. Slanderers, 500. Sorrow destroys beauty,
513. Sublime confidence, 91.

Juliet. - Daughter to Capulet.

R. J.

Avowal of love desired, 352. Brand of shame, 491.
Bringer of bad news hated, 406. Contradictions
of character, 77. Deceitfulness of character, 104.
Desperate alternatives, 18. Fickleness of fortune,
232. Horrors of a living tomb, 556. Impatience
for news, 299. Love beyond estimate, 358. Love
from hate, 358. Love impatient, 300, Love infi-
nite, 352. Love justifies disguise, 354. Love pas.
sionate, 357. Love never weary, 358. Love quench-
less, 355. Love wayward, 359. Love's opportuni-
ty, 403. Moon symbol of inconstancy, 389. "No"
yes," 410. Ominous parting, 421. Purity,
451. Seclusion desired, 486. Shame driven away
by honor, 279. Shrieks terrific, 492. Swift mes.
sengers, 379. Tears, 544. Telling news merrily,
408. Thought, love's herald, 551. Torn love letter,
360. What's in a name? 401.

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