Carolina QuotesFain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Walter Raleigh Connected to the Carolinas
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Fain Would I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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- 1919
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