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“If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms.”
Provenance
- Source:
- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bf5f3a022b18ea83c2d976d79c3105425feaedc8beea90f40e5f8506aeb9b51d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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