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“Nobles and heralds, by your leave, Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epitaph. Extempore.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d6af8ab8e50aa8cd5d27f06e19da64f362cccdbec16a537f01f0f0af21218a0a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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