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“An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: Give him a little earth for charity!”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0ee51deb961d9be4e0fd04616a71f4dd4cca54c6e235af98e56e300968fe1eae
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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