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“By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 794b196824bf9ba38c1d7cda0037c40d370144b45eeaf3fc1c6c4936f2fa4fd4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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