Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written dow…

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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? ✨ William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (1989). The Second Part of King Henry IV, p.76, Cambridge University Press
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