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"ref": "1865, Richard Grant White, Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare",
"text": "But we do know that she, though not vestally inclined, as we shall see, remained unmarried until 1582, and that then the woman of twenty-six took to husband the boy of eighteen.",
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"In a vestal manner; purely; chastely."
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