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waits

Originally the keepers of town gates, in the 15th–16th centuries, salaried bands employed to play at various functions, afterwards amateur singers and players performing outside the houses of the wealthier citizens for rewards in money and refreshment at Christmas.



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He waits with his hands on the boat--waits and thinks.
But enough, my Heart, the world waits to hear our story,--the world once so unloving to you, the world with a heart so hard and anon so soft for love.
Consideration and esteem as surely follow command of language as admiration waits on beauty, and here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
 
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