That I engage in deed maugrè the will of the Lords.
How starved altar can crave for gore in piety pourèd,
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Laodamia learnt taught by the loss of her man,
Driven perforce to loose the neck of new-wedded help-mate,
Whenas a winter had gone, nor other winter had come,
Ere in the long dark nights her greeding love was so sated
That she had power to live maugrè a marriage broke off,
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Which, as the Parcæ knew, too soon was fated to happen