misquote
verb (used with or without object)
to quote incorrectly.
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Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks; And we shall feed like oxen at a stall, The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare