A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. ✨ William Shakespeare (1832).…

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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. ✨ William Shakespeare (1832). Hamlet, and As you like it, a specimen of a new ed. of Shakespeare [by T. Caldecott]. by T. Caldecott
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