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“I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Defence of Poesy.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 14993654e9d2e368744b4db6239c33df58982abc9fb1586aa84c8755dc026430
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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