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“It is for homely features to keep home,-- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?”
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- Source:
- Comus. Line 748.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 10a475cb26dee41ccc2ae87515005c6d50c1854bc24e5b6cce9bdd8462c1bfa1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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