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“Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 38a8214209d7291e54589f2674261684ab384e056cbed9aef4c256728fa34d54
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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