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    "text": "He is to weet a melancholy Carle:",
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   {
    "text": "Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As hath the seeded thistle when in parle",
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   {
    "text": "It holds the Zephyr, ere it sendeth fair",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Its light balloons into the summer air;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "There to his beard had not begun to bloom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No brush had touch’d his chin, or razor sheer;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No care had touched his cheek with mortal doom,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But new he was, and bright, as scarf from Persian loom.",
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   {
    "text": "Ne cared he for wine, or half-and-half;",
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   {
    "text": "Ne cared he for fish, or flesh, or fowl;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sauces held he worthless as the chaff;",
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   {
    "text": "He’s deigned the swineherd at the wassail bowl;",
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   {
    "text": "Ne with lewd ribbalds sat he cheek by jowl;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Ne with sly Lemans in the scorner’s chair;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But after water-brooks this Pilgrim’s soul",
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   {
    "text": "Panted, and all his food was woodland air;",
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    "text": "Though he would oft-times feast on gilliflowers rare.",
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    "text": "The slang of cities in no wise he knew;",
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   {
    "text": "Tipping the wink to him was heathen Greek;",
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   {
    "text": "He sipp’d no “olden Tom,” or “ruin blue,”",
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   {
    "text": "Or Nantz, or cherry-brandy, drunk full meek",
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    "text": "By many a Damsel hoarse, and rouge of cheek;",
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   {
    "text": "Nor did he know each aged Watchman’s beat,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor in obscured purlieus would he seek",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For curled Jewesses, with ankles neat,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who, as they walk abroad, make tinkling with their feet.",
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