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   {
    "text": "So far as I conceive the World’s rebuke",
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   {
    "text": "To him address’d who would recast her new,",
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   {
    "text": "Not from herself her fame of strength she took,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But from their weakness, who would work her rue.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "“Behold,” she cries, “so many rages lull’d,",
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   {
    "text": "So many fiery spirits quite cool’d down:",
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   {
    "text": "Look how so many valours, long undull’d,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "After short commerce with me, fear my frown.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou too, when thou against my crimes wouldst cry,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let thy foreboded homage check thy tongue.”⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The World speaks well: yet might her foe reply⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "“Are wills so weak? then let not mine wait long.",
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   {
    "text": "Hast thou so rare a poison? let me be",
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   {
    "text": "Keener to slay thee, lest thou poison me.”",
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