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 "id": "william-shakespeare/lxxxv",
 "title": "LXXXV",
 "poet": "William Shakespeare",
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 "book": "Shake-speares Sonnets",
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    "text": "My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,",
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   {
    "text": "While comments of your praise, richly compiled,",
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   {
    "text": "Reserve their character with golden quill",
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   {
    "text": "And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.",
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   {
    "text": "I think good thoughts whilst other write good words,",
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   {
    "text": "And like unletter’d clerk still cry “Amen”",
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   {
    "text": "To every hymn that able spirit affords",
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    "text": "In polish’d form of well-refined pen.",
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   {
    "text": "Hearing you praised, I say “ ’Tis so, ’tis true,”",
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   {
    "text": "And to the most of praise add something more;",
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   {
    "text": "But that is in my thought, whose love to you,",
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    "text": "Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.",
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    "text": "Then others for the breath of words respect,",
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    "text": "Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.",
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