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    "text": "Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface",
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    "text": "In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d:",
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    "text": "Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place",
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    "text": "With beauty’s treasure, ere it be self-kill’d.",
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    "text": "That use is not forbidden usury",
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    "text": "Which happies those that pay the willing loan;",
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    "text": "That’s for thyself to breed another thee,",
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    "text": "Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;",
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    "text": "Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,",
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    "text": "If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:",
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   {
    "text": "Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,",
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   {
    "text": "Leaving thee living in posterity?",
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    "text": "Be not self-will’d, for thou art much too fair",
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    "text": "To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.",
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