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“Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it; and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 83d0c1211d7032a2df35e25f78f9fbfb2b5a5d3839a425a7347d8e7001cba5bd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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