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“He went away with a flea in 's ear.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c4d423391feb407ee6d475ca2318fbdf7210e3d50c1fd16b10101f7836de805a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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