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  1. Shakespeare had her pegged:

    RICH WHORE DETERRED: “Now is the winter of our discontent
    Made inglorious somehow by this son of New York;
    And all the cloud emails that once litter’d our house
    In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

    “This grim-visaged whore hath smooth’d her wrinkled front;
    And now, instead of mounting a campaign of misdeeds
    To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
    HE capers nimbly in the latest polls
    To the lascivious pleasing of the vote
    .
    But I, that am but shaped for supporters’ tricks,
    Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
    I, that am rudely f****** stamp’d, and want to be called Majesty
    To strut before a wanton and compliant press;
    I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
    Cheated of this future by my dissembling nature,
    Deformed, unfinish’d, and well past my time
    In this fact-check world, legacy half made up,
    And that so lamely and unfashionable
    That dogs bark like me, as (like Holt) I buy them;

    Why, I, in this weak-recovery time of peace,
    Have no delight to pass away the time,
    Unless to spy and shadow-ban in the sun
    And decant mine own deformity:

    And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
    To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
    I am determined to prove a villain
    And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
    Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
    By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
    To set my adversaries and my voters
    In deadly hate the one against the other:
    And if the enemy be as true and just
    As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
    This day should they closely be screwed up…”

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