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“Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 01ae0686ac36fe674ea1e5ad96abcaf2bb76b144d58e141074c1b0ef42681bba
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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