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Quotation from Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
“No, no, I am but shadow of myself. You are deceived, my substance is not here”
Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text))
The Countess of Auvergne thinks she has trapped Talbot; he answers that his true self is the army that follows him, and blows his horn to summon it.
Citation: "No, no, I am but shadow of myself. You are deceived, my substance is not here" — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 3 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text)). (id henry-vi-part-1-q3)
