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“The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a0f271f200bcce3d25ed7815ceb7df0da6818d546500bfff199a0b6521849490
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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