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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