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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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- William Shakespeare
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- Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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