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“You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a9eae696dbcbb2e82ee7e8d490383a9e92693d9bc8335ed1faa36667f58b6dd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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