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“A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1d6ad969b7c4469b8bcc86688c560e6234fc8e23367f7d23caa5de4a08a303e8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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