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“A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c8cf5b23a5dfe7610e85fdf7c06fcdea6297bde2519973fb0275a3c3ef859b8f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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