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- Oh brave new world that has such Xtras in it.
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- Transparency, transparency, my kingdom for transparency!
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- Out, out damned jaggies!
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- AlphaMania is but a walking shadow.
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- There's an Xtra that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
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- But soft, what light through yonder Xtra breaks.
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- The alpha's the thing to catch the conscience of the king.
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- To alias or not to alias, that is the question.
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- If AlphaMania be the Xtra of love, play on!
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- The quality of graphics is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
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- Neither a borrower, nor a renderer be.
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- What a piece of work is a AlphaMania! in form and moving how express and admirable!
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- Let me not to the marriage of four channels admit impediment.
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- Foot it featly here and there and, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
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- These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.
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- Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites, And show the best of our delights.
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- Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite call'd AlphaMania.
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- They rendered him smoothly on the stage, hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny.
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- How now a jaggie? Dead for a ducat, dead.
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- [Throws the meat, &c. about the stage]
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- All the world's a stage, and all the Xtra sprites merely players.
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- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
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- AlphaMania: a hit, a very palpable hit!
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- The AlphaManiacs are at hand and by their show you shall know all that you are like to know.
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- I'll prove a busy actor in their play.
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- A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.
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- These our Xtras were all spirits and are melted into air.
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- His glassy essence plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep.
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- Clear's not clear which alter's when it different background finds.
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- Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.
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- We'll yoke together, like a drop shadow.
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- Shine out, fair Xtra, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.
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- And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by a shadow like an angel.
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- Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.
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- And make it but a shadow, as I am.
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- Swift as a shadow, short as any dream.
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- The best in this kind are but shadows.
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- As with your shadow I with these did play.
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- AlphaMania : that smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!
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- Special thanks to Cynthia Romano and all of our beta-testers!
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