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“Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 15e9bdb0f577107bce73c15b1050bff36493d4c637a544f6812c84f3dd6d9218
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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