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“Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Remains.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 5785edd4ff4119f681a2b09bfc3d892c98de42d3ca3e8dba4b751deb37862cb3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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