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| NUMBER: | 56913 |
| QUOTATION: | Lord, confound this surly sister, Blight her brow with blotch and blister, Cramp her larynx, lung and liver, In her guts a galling give her. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J.M. (John Millington) Synge (18711909), Irish dramatist. The Curse (l. 14). . .
New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, The. Thomas Kinsella, ed. and tr. (1986) Oxford University Press. |
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