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“Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free,-- Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f3de259b90f3a60c17eb32d63e4c1c5639660607fa3832a360d94f041efb2549
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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