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“And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 386dca590025b5bfe12baa072e5537619a70cbe707d41c3c5faba4f8be693274
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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