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“And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 308d942279417702172f1d4b0fb97fb207503d42c35d038ddfc3863b2a5a1746
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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