Quote#Solitude
Thirty dayes hath Nouember
Quote byRichard Grafton · 1511–1572
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Chronicles of England (1562)..
English (original)
Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest haue xxxi.
— Richard Grafton
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