Speaking as one that coud the end foretell.

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‘And ere long,’ said he, ‘they will spy again:

Let them be dash’d upon the rocks and die;

’Tis they must come to death or thou to pain,

To separation, Psyche, thou and I;

Nay, and our babe to ill. I therefore crave

Thou wilt not even once more these vipers save,

Nor to thy love his only boon deny.’

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