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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- John Dryden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1.
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