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“Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b8dc74bfda1533bd0bf50c59a44697c41c2d429a09c58cf90165f05a22e05896
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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