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“I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lines on his Promised Pension.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b13d81e06d7c55dd82d523fded6614476d7d275a26fc254b6b5dab1bb486d30c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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