Lest with a stolen punk with fullest of pleasure should Paris
Fairly at leisure and ease sleep in the pacific bed.
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Such was the hapless chance, most beautiful Laodamia,
Tare fro' thee dearer than life, dearer than spirit itself,
Him, that husband, whose love in so mighty a whirlpool of passion
Whelmed thee absorbèd and plunged deep in its gulfy abyss,
E'en as the Grecians tell hard by Phenéus of Cylléne
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Drained was the marish and dried, forming the fattest of soils,