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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 (1871–1909), Irish dramatist. The Curse (l. 1–4). . .

New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, The. Thomas Kinsella, ed. and tr. (1986) Oxford University Press.
 
 
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