MARGARET: Now ’tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now, and they’ll o’ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet

Henry VI, Part 2, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 31ff (3.1.31-33) (1591)
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