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The following line from Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 3) contains a number of obsolete words:

Ophelia: I shall the effect of this good lesson keep

As watchman to my heart, but, good my brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,

Whiles he, like a puffed and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads

And recks not his own rede.

"Dalliance", "recks" and "rede" are all obsolete.

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