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“Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 223b6342f9ce56b547702d08d06a89c59af74ab0be5c7ff9a23bff4b440dba9f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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