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 "title": "CXX",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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   {
    "text": "That you were once unkind befriends me now,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And for that sorrow which I then did feel",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Needs must I under my transgression bow,",
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   {
    "text": "Unless my nerves were brass or hammer’d steel.",
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   {
    "text": "For if you were by my unkindness shaken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As I by yours, you’ve pass’d a hell of time,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To weigh how once I suffer’d in your crime.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O, that our night of woe might have remember’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And soon to you, as you to me, then tender’d",
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   {
    "text": "The humble salve which wounded bosoms fits!",
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   {
    "text": "But that your trespass now becomes a fee;",
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   {
    "text": "Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.",
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