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[On an euening as colde, as colde might bee]

On an euening as colde, as colde might bee,
With frost and haile, and pinching weather,
Companions about three times three,
Lay close all in a pound together:
Yet one after one, they tooke a heate,
And died that night, all in a sweate.

A pound of candles.