{ "id": "william-shakespeare/a-lovers-complaint", "title": "A Lover’s Complaint", "ordinal": null, "subtitle": null, "poet": "William Shakespeare", "poet_slug": "william-shakespeare", "language": "en", "book": "Shake-speares Sonnets", "book_slug": "sonnets", "book_kind": "volume", "sequence": 155, "container": null, "epigraph": null, "first_published": { "year": 1609, "venue": "Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)", "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.", "uncertain": false, "sources": [ "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100", "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662550" ] }, "source": { "kind": "standard-ebooks", "repo": "standardebooks/william-shakespeare_poetry", "file": "sonnets.xhtml", "upstream": [ "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100", "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004135080" ], "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)" }, "verification": { "level": "structural-only", "last_checked": 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youth begun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven’s fell rage,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some beauty peep’d through lattice of sear’d age.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which on it had conceited characters,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Laundering the silken figures in the brine", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That season’d woe had pelleted in tears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And often reading what contents it bears;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As often shrieking undistinguish’d woe,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In clamours of all size, both high and low.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Sometimes her levell’d eyes their carriage ride,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As they did battery to the spheres intend;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their view right on; anon their gazes lend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To every place at once, and, nowhere fix’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The mind and sight distractedly commix’d.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Proclaim’d in her a careless hand of pride;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For some, untuck’d, descended her sheaved hat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And true to bondage would not break from thence,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though slackly braided in loose negligence.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A thousand favours from a maund she drew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which one by one she in a river threw,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon whose weeping margent she was set;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like usury, applying wet to wet,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or monarch’s hands that lets not bounty fall", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where want cries some, but where excess begs all.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "Of folded schedules had she many a one,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which she perused, sigh’d, tore, and gave the flood;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Crack’d many a ring of posied gold and bone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Found yet moe letters sadly penn’d in blood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With sleided silk feat and affectedly", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Enswathed, and seal’d to curious secrecy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "These often bathed she in her fluxive eyes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And often kiss’d, and often ’gan to tear;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Cried, “O false blood, thou register of lies,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What unapproved witness dost thou bear!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ink would have seem’d more black and damned here!”", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Big discontent so breaking their contents.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of court, of city, and had let go by", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The swiftest hours, observed as they flew⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, privileged by age, desires to know", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "So slides he down upon his grained bat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And comely-distant sits he by her side;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When he again desires her, being sat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Her grievance with his hearing to divide:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If that from him there may be aught applied", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "’Tis promised in the charity of age.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Father,” she says, “though in me you behold", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The injury of many a blasting hour,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Let it not tell your judgement I am old;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I might as yet have been a spreading flower,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Fresh to myself, if I had self-applied", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love to myself and to no love beside.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, woe is me! too early I attended", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "A youthful suit⁠—it was to gain my grace⁠—", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of one by nature’s outwards so commended,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That maidens’ eyes stuck over all his face:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love lack’d a dwelling, and made him her place;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And when in his fair parts she did abide,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She was new lodged and newly deified.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His browny locks did hang in crooked curls;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And every light occasion of the wind", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What’s sweet to do, to do will aptly find:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For on his visage was in little drawn", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What largeness thinks in Paradise was sawn.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Small show of man was yet upon his chin;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His phoenix down began but to appear", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like unshorn velvet on that termless skin", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose bare out-bragg’d the web it seem’d to wear:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet show’d his visage by that cost more dear;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And nice affections wavering stood in doubt", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "If best were as it was, or best without.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“His qualities were beauteous as his form,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Yet if men moved him, was he such a storm", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As oft ’twixt May and April is to see,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When winds breathe sweet, unruly though they be.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His rudeness so with his authorized youth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Well could he ride, and often men would say", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "‘That horse his mettle from his rider takes:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!’", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And controversy hence a question takes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whether the horse by him became his deed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But quickly on this side the verdict went:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His real habitude gave life and grace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To appertainings and to ornament,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Accomplish’d in himself, not in his case:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Came for additions; yet their purposed trim", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Pieced not his grace, but were all graced by him.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So on the tip of his subduing tongue", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All kind of arguments and question deep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All replication prompt, and reason strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For his advantage still did wake and sleep:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He had the dialect and different skill,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Catching all passions in his craft of will:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That he did in the general bosom reign", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In personal duty, following where he haunted:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Consents bewitch’d, ere he desire, have granted;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And dialogued for him what he would say,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ask’d their own wills, and made their wills obey.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Many there were that did his picture get,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Like fools that in th’ imagination set", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The goodly objects which abroad they find", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“So many have, that never touch’d his hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Sweetly supposed them mistress of his heart.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "My woeful self, that did in freedom stand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And was my own fee-simple, not in part,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What with his art in youth, and youth in art,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Threw my affections in his charmed power,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Reserved the stalk and gave him all my flower.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Yet did I not, as some my equals did,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Demand of him, nor being desired yielded;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Finding myself in honour so forbid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With safest distance I mine honour shielded:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Experience for me many bulwarks builded", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain’d the foil", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“But, ah, who ever shunn’d by precedent", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The destined ill she must herself assay?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or forceed examples, ’gainst her own content,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To put the by-past perils in her way?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Counsel may stop a while what will not stay;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For when we rage, advice is often seen", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By blunting us to make our wits more keen.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That we must curb it upon others’ proof;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To be forbode the sweets that seems so good,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O appetite, from judgement stand aloof!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The one a palate hath that needs will taste,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Though Reason weep, and cry ‘It is thy last.’", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For further I could say ‘This man’s untrue,’", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Heard where his plants in others’ orchards grew,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Thought characters and words merely but art,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“And long upon these terms I held my city,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till thus he ’gan besiege me: ‘Gentle maid,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And be not of my holy vows afraid:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That’s to ye sworn to none was ever said;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For feasts of love I have been call’d unto,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Till now did ne’er invite, nor never woo.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘All my offences that abroad you see", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Are errors of the blood, none of the mind;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love made them not: with acture they may be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Where neither party is nor true nor kind:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "They sought their shame that so their shame did find;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And so much less of shame in me remains,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "By how much of me their reproach contains.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Among the many that mine eyes have seen,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not one whose flame my heart so much as warm’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or my affection put to the smallest teen,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or any of my leisures ever charm’d:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Harm have I done to them, but ne’er was harm’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And reign’d, commanding in his monarchy.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Look here, what tributes wounded fancies sent me,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of paled pearls and rubies red as blood;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of grief and blushes, aptly understood", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In bloodless white and the encrimson’d moods;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Effects of terror and dear modesty,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Encamp’d in hearts, but fighting outwardly.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘And, lo, behold these talents of their hair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With twisted metal amorously impleach’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I have received from many a several fair,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With the annexions of fair gems enrich’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And deep-brain’d sonnets that did amplify", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each stone’s dear nature, worth, and quality.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘The diamond⁠—why, ’twas beautiful and hard,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whereto his invised properties did tend;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With objects manifold: each several stone,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With wit well blazon’d, smiled or made some moan.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of pensived and subdued desires the tender,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Nature hath charged me that I hoard them not,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But yield them up where I myself must render,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That is, to you, my origin and ender;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For these, of force, must your oblations be,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Since I their altar, you empatron me.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘O, then, advance of yours that phraseless hand,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Take all these similes to your own command,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Hallow’d with sighs that burning lungs did raise;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What me your minister, for you obeys,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Works under you; and to your audit comes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Their distract parcels in combined sums.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or sister sanctified, of holiest note;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which late her noble suit in court did shun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But kept cold distance, and did thence remove,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To spend her living in eternal love.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘But, O my sweet, what labour is’t to leave", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The thing we have not, mastering what not strives,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Playing the place which did no form receive,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "She that her fame so to herself contrives,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The scars of battle ’scapeth by the flight,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And makes her absence valiant, not her might.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘O, pardon me, in that my boast is true:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The accident which brought me to her eye", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Upon the moment did her force subdue,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And now she would the caged cloister fly:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Religious love put out Religion’s eye:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Not to be tempted, would she be immured,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And now, to tempt, all liberty procured.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘How mighty then you are, O, hear me tell!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The broken bosoms that to me belong", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Have emptied all their fountains in my well,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And mine I pour your ocean all among:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "I strong o’er them, and you o’er me being strong,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Must for your victory us all congest,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "As compound love to physic your cold breast.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘My parts had power to charm a sacred nun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, disciplined, ay, dieted in grace,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Believed her eyes when they to assail begun,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All vows and consecrations giving place:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "For thou art all, and all things else are thine.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘When thou impressest, what are precepts worth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "How coldly those impediments stand forth", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Love’s arms are peace, ’gainst rule, ’gainst sense, ’gainst shame,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“ ‘Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And supplicant their sighs to your extend,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To leave the battery that you make ’gainst mine,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Lending soft audience to my sweet design,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That shall prefer and undertake my troth.’", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“This said, his watery eyes he did dismount,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Whose sights till then were levell’d on my face;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Each cheek a river running from a fount", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "With brinish current downward flow’d apace:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who glazed with crystal gate the glowing roses", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That flame through water which their hue encloses.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In the small orb of one particular tear!", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "But with the inundation of the eyes", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What rocky heart to water will not wear?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What breast so cold that is not warmed here?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“For, lo, his passion, but an art of craft,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Even there resolved my reason into tears;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "There my white stole of chastity I daff’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Shook off my sober guards and civil fears;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Appear to him, as he to me appears,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "All melting; though our drops this difference bore,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "His poison’d me, and mine did him restore.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“In him a plenitude of subtle matter,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "In either’s aptness, as it best deceives,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "To blush at speeches rank, to weep at woes,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows:", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“That not a heart which in his level came", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Could ’scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And, veil’d in them, did win whom he would maim:", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "When he most burn’d in heart-wish’d luxury,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "He preach’d pure maid, and praised cold chastity.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“Thus merely with the garment of a Grace", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "The naked and concealed fiend he cover’d;", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "That th’ unexperient gave the tempter place,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Which like a cherubin above them hover’d.", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Who, young and simple, would not be so lover’d?", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Ay me! I fell; and yet do question make", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "What I should do again for such a sake.", "indent": 0 } ], [ { "text": "“O, that infected moisture of his eye,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "O, all that borrow’d motion seeming owed,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "Would yet again betray the fore-betray’d,", "indent": 0 }, { "text": "And new pervert a reconciled maid!”", "indent": 0 } ] ] }