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“Or ’twas the wages Sin deserves of Heaven, that filchèd Léonor from marriage bed, by false, misunderstood opinions driven another’s wife, a leman-bride to wed;

Or ’twas because his easy bosom given to vice and vileness, and by both misled, waxèd effeminate weak; which may be true, for low-placed loves the highest hearts subdue.

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