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“Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Waiting Maid.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d21e6eb7430e6da9051aba6adfaaf2dcf64894502d1a3695eb272eadb2697227
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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