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“And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e54e05e3dd6efde92bd6e7faeb86afc0be8ebba4ee74268a65094370a29b74c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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