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“Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Comus. Line 776.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac1c31510ff4e655da80638b1d2e8a22892ecf917121b725e071f52b4bd0f59b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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