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Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book i. Line 279.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 101872655562d5d21fed851917de03c1c69f5ec7a458b50b90143c0eb0dbce98
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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