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 "title": "LVIII",
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    "text": "That god forbid that made me first your slave,",
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   {
    "text": "I should in thought control your times of pleasure,",
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   {
    "text": "Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,",
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   {
    "text": "Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!",
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   {
    "text": "O, let me suffer, being at your beck,",
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   {
    "text": "The imprison’d absence of your liberty;",
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    "text": "And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,",
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    "text": "Without accusing you of injury.",
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    "text": "Be where you list, your charter is so strong",
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   {
    "text": "That you yourself may privilage your time",
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   {
    "text": "To what you will; to you it doth belong",
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   {
    "text": "Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.",
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   {
    "text": "I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;",
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    "text": "Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.",
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