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“If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 9e490a14a6c0b50c6d588076ff073b7027e5a3d607a7cecef2361befdc9da76f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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