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 "title": "Love’s Usury",
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 "poet": "John Donne",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death",
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 "container": "Songs and Sonnets",
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  "year": 1633,
  "venue": "Poems, by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death (1633)",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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   {
    "text": "For every hour that thou wilt spare me now,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I will allow,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Usurious god of love, twenty to thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "When with my brown my grey hairs equal be.",
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   {
    "text": "Till then, Love, let my body range, and let",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Me travel, sojourn, snatch, plot, have, forget,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Resume my last year’s relict; think that yet",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’d never met.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Let me think any rival’s letter mine,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And at next nine",
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   {
    "text": "Keep midnight’s promise; mistake by the way",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The maid, and tell the lady of that delay;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Only let me love none; no, not the sport",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From country grass to confitures of court,",
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   {
    "text": "Or city’s quelque-choses; let not report",
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   {
    "text": "My mind transport.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "This bargain’s good; if when I’m old, I be",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Inflamed by thee,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "If thine own honour, or my shame and pain,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou covet most, at that age thou shalt gain.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Do thy will then; then subject and degree",
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   {
    "text": "And fruit of love, Love, I submit to thee.",
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   {
    "text": "Spare me till then; I’ll bear it, though she be",
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   {
    "text": "One that love me.",
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