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NUMBER:49885
QUOTATION:Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden.
ATTRIBUTION:William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Queen, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 4, l. 73.

Speaking to the gardener as if he were the first gardener, Adam.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Shakespeare Collection.
 
 
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