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“King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear,-- With that he called the tailor lown.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6737ca6b15a8f8abef0412a7828460d12de7306794de43985f294ab3902db589
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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