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“For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 74cf429fc5cccd8d6913c11e739fb21ab41187f666df9e567eb15a31012bbea5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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