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“Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend.”
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- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dceea8926e27a404c73454ada7e6063e954ec583051309ab0285fabfb69c71f3
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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