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“When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 46c8bbf58e47ba295204d8130820c9b5d13a06882f674840f824e39622103728
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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