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“Base is the slave that pays.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 41918e5aa34d17202facbb1e9d1ae7453d9d2f95c9d7ffab27a314b2928086ec
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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