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“She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Titus Andronicus. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9680ee49dd42beecdd2fa37bb81bf794fdfdd23e7b7dcddffd6be9a658c49950
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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