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‘By that remember’d anguish of thine heart,

Lady, have pity even on me, and show

Where I may find my love; and take my part

For peace, I pray, against my cruel foe:

Or if thou canst not from her anger shield,

Here let me lie among the sheaves conceal’d

Such time till forth I may in safety go.’

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Demeter answer’d, ‘Nay, though thou constrain