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   {
    "text": "It is the gallant Seventh⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It fyghteth faste and free!",
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    "text": "God wot the where it fyghteth",
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   {
    "text": "I ne desyre to be.",
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   {
    "text": "The Gonfalon it flyeth,",
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    "text": "Seeming a Flayme in Sky;",
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   {
    "text": "The Bugel loud yblowen is,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Which sayeth, Doe and dye!",
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    "text": "And (O good Saints defende us",
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    "text": "Agaynst the Woes of Warr)",
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    "text": "Drawn Tongues are flashing deadly",
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    "text": "To smyte the Foeman sore!",
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   {
    "text": "With divers kinds of Riddance",
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   {
    "text": "The smoaking Earth is wet,",
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    "text": "And all aflowe to seaward goe",
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   {
    "text": "The Torrents wide of Sweat!",
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    "text": "The Thunder of the Captens,",
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   {
    "text": "And eke the Shouting, mayketh",
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    "text": "Such horrid Din the Soule within",
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   {
    "text": "The boddy of me quayketh!",
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    "text": "Who fyghteth the bold Seventh?",
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    "text": "What haughty Power defyes?",
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    "text": "Their Colonel ’tis they drubben sore,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And dammen too his Eyes!",
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