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“He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Defence of Poesy.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6ed90cc25af052abc283cba2e6019c82e133ad6943513ceb25b9f70496fd3bad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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