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 "title": "IX",
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    "text": "Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye",
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   {
    "text": "That thou consumest thyself in single life?",
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   {
    "text": "Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,",
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   {
    "text": "The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;",
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   {
    "text": "The world will be thy widow and still weep",
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   {
    "text": "That thou no form of thee hast left behind,",
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   {
    "text": "When every private widow well may keep",
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    "text": "By children’s eyes her husband’s shape in mind.",
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   {
    "text": "Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But beauty’s waste hath in the world an end,",
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   {
    "text": "And kept unused, the user so destroys it.",
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    "text": "No love toward others in that bosom sits",
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    "text": "That on himself such murderous shame commits.",
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