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  "text": "If but some vengeful god would call to me\n\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: \"Thou suffering thing,\n\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,\n\nThat thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!\"",
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      "text": "You may prate of your prowess in lusty times,\n\nBut as years gnaw inward you blink your bays,\n\nAnd see too well your crimes!",
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