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“"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much."”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 79a5a2de48a4289994c38525a811c57e4fc30ab8ff281e36cdb93a8a4191598b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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