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“'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ef8bd9bfcda761c9091d8125b9745bf2f2c6e4a314cb6894da186f630be38eed
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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