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“Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a24d554da7cfd174226d20dac45277f76538763832056b987222a20a146df89c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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