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    "text": "Thou art not so black as my heart,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art;",
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   {
    "text": "What wouldst thou say? shall both our properties by thee be spoke,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "—Nothing more endless, nothing sooner broke?",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Marriage rings are not of this stuff;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh, why should ought less precious, or less tough,",
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   {
    "text": "Figure our loves? except in thy name thou have bid it say",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“⁠—I’m cheap, and nought but fashion; fling me away.”",
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  [
   {
    "text": "Yet stay with me since thou art come,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Circle this finger’s top, which didst her thumb;",
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   {
    "text": "Be justly proud, and gladly safe, that thou dost dwell with me;",
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   {
    "text": "She that, O! broke her faith, would soon break thee.",
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