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“Oh would I were dead now, Or up in my bed now, To cover my head now, And have a good cry!”
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- Source:
- A Table of Errata.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3a23e55baf527972e5ba33fb4e1c7c2f705b89df10e8ab6ae6dfc43d039dfafe
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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