I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing o…

William Shakespeare
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. ✨ 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. ✨ 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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