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“The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclosed, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8678aa1c06ade5e182743e101ecd31af30cd77f0e6a8c0563df5f3a7feaf3390
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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