I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks i…

William Shakespeare
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I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence. ✨ William Shakespeare (1842). The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely New Collation of the Old Editions, with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage, p.218
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