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“Here lies our sovereign lord the king, Whose word no man relies on; He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f5bda39fa3622fbc859e02e82d1d668081d15444bee3c4ae7426eb68a746fd39
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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