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“And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 6c9a2d6ee39712b5cef57a743706ae3ea85de79c06b284349c0a577166e9a3e9
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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