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“Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows-tree.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a77be2c09ff7bb7027fa41c1055d6168ae35f796c42986cf867eea652b9d3bbd
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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