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“Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Marmion. Canto v. Stanza 9.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f98f8fcdf599d6d44fb234d680b40159ad16d6c88f3abc9ccd78adaf9b298fd8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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