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 "title": "XLVIII",
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    "text": "How careful was I, when I took my way,",
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    "text": "Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,",
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   {
    "text": "That to my use it might unused stay",
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   {
    "text": "From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!",
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   {
    "text": "But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,",
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   {
    "text": "Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,",
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   {
    "text": "Thou, best of dearest and mine only care,",
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    "text": "Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.",
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    "text": "Thee have I not lock’d up in any chest,",
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   {
    "text": "Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,",
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    "text": "Within the gentle closure of my breast,",
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    "text": "From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;",
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   {
    "text": "And even thence thou wilt be stol’n, I fear,",
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    "text": "For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.",
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