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 "title": "CXXIV",
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   {
    "text": "If my dear love were but the child of state,",
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   {
    "text": "It might for Fortune’s bastard be unfather’d,",
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   {
    "text": "As subject to Time’s love or to Time’s hate,",
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   {
    "text": "Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather’d.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "No, it was builded far from accident;",
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   {
    "text": "It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls",
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    "text": "Under the blow of thralled discontent,",
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    "text": "Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:",
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    "text": "It fears not policy, that heretic,",
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   {
    "text": "Which works on leases of short-number’d hours,",
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   {
    "text": "But all alone stands hugely politic,",
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    "text": "That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.",
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    "text": "To this I witness call the fools of time,",
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    "text": "Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.",
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