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“Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ab5c2bcff2de28a966337f2640c1461e17d4e3d7ef97fc59c45a1b118f40f1b3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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