The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
- Source
- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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