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'T is better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd,
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
— Sonnet CXXI
KEYWORD: water
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So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
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Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
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Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for
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A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled
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Carry his water to the wise woman. |