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    "text": "O, my black soul, now thou art summoned",
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    "text": "By sickness, Death’s herald and champion;",
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    "text": "Treason, and durst not turn to whence he’s fled;",
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    "text": "Or like a thief, which till death’s doom be read,",
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    "text": "Wisheth himself deliver’d from prison,",
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    "text": "Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned.",
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    "text": "Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lack;",
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    "text": "But who shall give thee that grace to begin?",
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    "text": "O, make thyself with holy mourning black,",
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    "text": "And red with blushing, as thou art with sin;",
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    "text": "Or wash thee in Christ’s blood, which hath this might,",
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