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“In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil?”
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- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a8464bdcb5eabedddf25e7d4a2b4a0d086d90bcd0b432de18b1f9fa2f1632ff3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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