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An Humorous Day's Mirth

An Humorous Day's Mirth is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by George Chapman, first acted in 1597 and published in 1599.


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“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”

An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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“An ill weed grows apace.”

An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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