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“How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 70fbeb35dbcbb8b8bae06c773d70c320c3b6aa453cf3ad262b03a651a09ce8b4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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