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“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epitaph on Shakespeare.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2e3ee5dcaeb5b6f453dffd251cbb883e2609e17707a5f19ffc71c4383b259cd8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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