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How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!
Approximate author period: c. 1603 AD · renaissance
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- Author or tradition
- Thomas Middleton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1603 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint from documented life dates (1580–1627)
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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