“Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.”

—  William Wordsworth, Peter Bell

Peter Bell, Part I, stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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