Nor heed these Spartan dames their house, nor sit
'Mid cares domestic—they nor sew nor knit;
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But of their fate discourse, their ways, their wars,
With arm'd authorities, their 'scapes and scars:
These lead to present evils, and a cup,
If fortune grant it, winds description up.
High hung at either end, and next the wall,
Two ancient mirrors show the forms of all,
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