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 "title": "CXLII",
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    "text": "Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,",
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   {
    "text": "Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,",
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   {
    "text": "And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;",
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   {
    "text": "Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,",
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   {
    "text": "That have profaned their scarlet ornaments",
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   {
    "text": "And seal’d false bonds of love as oft as mine,",
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   },
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    "text": "Robb’d others’ beds’ revenues of their rents.",
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   {
    "text": "Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those",
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    "text": "Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:",
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    "text": "Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows",
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    "text": "Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.",
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   {
    "text": "If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,",
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    "text": "By self-example mayst thou be denied!",
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