And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of ho…

William Shakespeare
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ✨ William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). King Richard III, p.95, Cambridge University Press
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. ✨ William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). King Richard III, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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