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 "title": "To Mr. Christopher Brooke",
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    "text": "Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchain,",
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   {
    "text": "Urged by this unexcusable occasion,",
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   {
    "text": "Thee and the saint of his affection",
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   {
    "text": "Leaving behind, doth of both wants complain.",
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   {
    "text": "And let the love I bear to both sustain",
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   {
    "text": "No blot nor maim by this division;",
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   {
    "text": "Strong is this love which ties our hearts in one,",
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    "text": "And strong that love pursued with amorous pain.",
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   {
    "text": "But though besides thyself I leave behind",
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   {
    "text": "Heaven’s liberal, and the thrice fair sun,",
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    "text": "Going to where starved winter aye doth won,",
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    "text": "Yet Love’s hot fires, which martyr my sad mind,",
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   {
    "text": "Do send forth scalding sighs, which have the art",
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    "text": "To melt all ice, but that which walls her heart.",
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