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    "text": "You gave but will not give again",
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    "text": "Until enough of Paudeen’s pence",
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    "text": "By Biddy’s halfpennies have lain",
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    "text": "Before you’ll put your guineas down,",
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    "text": "Are what the blind and ignorant town",
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    "text": "Imagines best to make it thrive.",
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    "text": "What cared Duke Ercole, that bid",
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    "text": "What th’ onion-sellers thought or did",
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    "text": "So that his Plautus set the pace",
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    "text": "For the Italian comedies?",
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    "text": "And Guidobaldo, when he made",
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    "text": "Upon Urbino’s windy hill,",
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    "text": "That he might learn the shepherds’ will.",
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    "text": "And when they drove out Cosimo,",
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    "text": "Indifferent how the rancour ran,",
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    "text": "He gave the hours they had set free",
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    "text": "To Michelozzo’s latest plan",
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    "text": "For the San Marco Library,",
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    "text": "Whence turbulent Italy should draw",
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    "text": "Your open hand but shows our loss,",
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    "text": "For he knew better how to live.",
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    "text": "Let Paudeens play at pitch and toss,",
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    "text": "That some new day may breed the best",
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