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“As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Captivity. Act i.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 65389a5a88a8f88d982bd0fc074abf62615e1967514193570f66ce8502564076
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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