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“What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
Provenance
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 81beba0b82ea60d50cd22be804b3f1eab5411983b9e98ce09827cf47131d3df2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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