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    "text": "The little Love-god lying once asleep",
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   {
    "text": "Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,",
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   {
    "text": "Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep",
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    "text": "Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand",
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    "text": "The fairest votary took up that fire",
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    "text": "Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;",
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    "text": "And so the general of hot desire",
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    "text": "Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.",
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    "text": "This brand she quenched in a cool well by,",
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   {
    "text": "Which from Love’s fire took heat perpetual,",
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    "text": "Growing a bath and healthful remedy",
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    "text": "For men diseased; but I, my mistress’ thrall,",
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   {
    "text": "Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,",
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    "text": "Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.",
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