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I found them winding of Marcello’s corpse.

And there was such a solemn melody,

’Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies⁠—

Such as old grandames, watching by the dead,

Are wont to outwear the night with.

Old Play

I found them winding of Marcello’s corpse. And there was such a solemn melody, ’Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies⁠— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.

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