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“'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4cf040e74e2e0df848042fefb51bfdf4a2dacf9619b4ac60a7facedf3f4ffa6e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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