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“Unlike my subject now shall be my song; It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Impromptu Lines.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e0ba588f9c9eaa2a7ea686f8ffa27166171aa12bbc78444be6b7fcc6bb7eb0a5
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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