ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY
yself t ( delinquencies to anso take an airing beyond trict conscience, -- not to live als of ts, -- but noo imagine a riction -- to get into recesses, follow me -
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Of grove,
there was no fear of Jove --
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