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“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ad675f246d69bf2130ffb3c65f6536d855d90facb84a2197a2f8ff730e629ff7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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