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“My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87e450493f053731f71e42d856eaf298e00e2a842b716ae476478bb7bc22d09c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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