O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth us…

William Shakespeare
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. ✨ William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, p.772
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. ✨ William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, p.772

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