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“If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85af66d868909cdcef646c936744d20192dcd60a34631f507dca6cb2512593cc
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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