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CLXXIV. EPITHALAMIUM.

Weep Venus, and ye
Adorable Three
Who Venus for ever environ.
Pounds, shillings, and pence
And shrewd sober sense
Have clapt the strait waistcoat on ---
Off Mainot and Turk
With pistol and dirk,
Nor palace nor pinnace set fire on

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The cord's fatal jerk
Has done its last work
And the noose is now slipped upon ---