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“Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac41c8d1c31e07997653db0ee5ef20db5e642a40bc51ea256e3b605d29348d02
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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