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Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
Approximate author period: c. 1631 AD · renaissance
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- James Shirley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1631 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1596–1666)
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote23 · printed citation: JAMES SHIRLEY: Death's Final Conquest, Sc. iii.
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