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“But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ec40505d307e0f6ca3a46424ead50957d28983d1ecd850ab6e2d62d03ff53a98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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