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LXXX.

"As it is--your ermined pride, I swear, shall feel this stain upon her, That _I_, poor, weak, tost with passion, scorned by me and you again, Love you, madam, dare to love you, to my grief and your dishonour, To my endless desolation, and your impotent disdain!"