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“Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element 's below.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c90968c3327110b8c496c4d15a15309f2aa1823ea8a57cc1249a0e0de1ba4f09
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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