Quotation by Shakespeare

Lord worshipped might he be, what a beard hast thou got!
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Old Gobbo, in The Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 2, l. 93-4.

The blind old man mistakes his son's long hair for a beard.
Surprise me with a
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