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O willing world to magnify man’s state!
O most unwilling to maintain the same!
Of all misfortunes and unhappy fates
Th’ unhappiest seems to have been happy once.[282]
’Twas Arthur sole, that never found his joys
Disturb’d with woe, nor woes reliev’d with joy.
In prosperous state all heavenly pow’rs aspir’d;
Now, made a wretch, not one that spares his spoil!
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