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One ’gan to say, “Wherewith may better we spur tardy Time who lags so sore and slow, save with some pretty tale of joyaunce gay that heavy slumber trouble us no mo?”

Replied Le’onardo, truest lover he, whose firm and constant thought was aye aglow: “What tale our tardy breasts may better move and kill old Time than some fair Lay of Love?”

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