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“I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c95f5c19ff02a4ce2f30b274989b6cd8eb626fb498db7ad34eb46fff352cd0a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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