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“I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 23690cabdb677260f4c88cdb935f8a7decbc58669ea6ee5bfe80ae532964e225
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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