Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 40W. Blackwood, 1836 |
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Página 433 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
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