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“Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Poems against Garnesche.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3c3f6371221c571b8f2f5dab900f37e0af748a392309791e0c14d7f27729a985
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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