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Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But—why did you kick me down stairs?
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But—why did you kick me down stairs?
Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- J. P. Kemble
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- Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Panel. Act i. Sc. 1.
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