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“The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 96dbef01808ebf1b2df17e954e46f69fcc579fcd24ab31855a907a6359eb8532
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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