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“Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9eea75211e177cde0d3dbb15ee1588c8cd2229d5f247188a90e62eb0d1621154
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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