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“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e9d6b8641cae6f3f753884b3ddacf91210913faff230029550e56ec415503413
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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