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“Dost thou understand?” she asks. “Do my words sink into thy mind? Or art thou dull ‘as the ass to the sound of the lyre’? Why dost thou weep? Why do tears stream from thy eyes?

“ ‘Speak out, hide it not in thy heart.’

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“ ‘Speak out, hide it not in thy heart.’ 3

If thou lookest for the physician’s help, thou must needs disclose thy wound.”

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