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“Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aa8ba85f196ac2de71fcda6ffcbffeb56142625f4e6e7bcd0a7dd3699c11f8b5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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