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“I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ccb451696e3095df65a55135475ca2403ac306dc00fcc6223ba17b678188a27
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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