- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 2
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- Henry VI, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- The Winter's Tale
This passage takes place after Marcher’s second-to-last encounter with May. May, who will soon die of a blood disorder, has just told Marcher that whatever his fate is, he won’t suffer because of it. But Marcher thinks that she’s lying to spare his feelings. He’s suspected before that May’s death will be his ultimate fate, and while this would be an anticlimactic ending to his saga, he now thinks that it’s the only thing that makes sense.
Throughout the novella, Marcher has isolated himself from other people because he believed that his fate was different from everyone else’s. He’s now…