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"ref": "2005, Vergil, Eclogues and Georgics - Page 36",
"text": "But ere our metal cleave An unknown surface, heed we to forelearn The winds and varying temper of the sky, The lineal tilth and habits of the spot, What every region yields, and what denies. Here blithelier springs the corn, and here the grape, ...",
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"ref": "2014, Christopher Marlowe, Mathew R. Martin, Tamburlaine the Great: Part One and Part Two - Page 303",
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