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“But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e219fd1471447388b2bfa39f17f13297ecfd6069d178a47ec9b0538292734a70
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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