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“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cc2afac7f22efc87e7ac2dc35a2ffcb7ea26c2bfb82ba7879f618f4c28028df3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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