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"text": "Between his cankred teeth a venemous tode, / That al the poyson ranne about his chawe: / But inwardly he chawed his owne mawe / At neighbours wealth, that made him ever sad; / For death it was when any good he sawe; / And wept, that cause of weeping none he had,"
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