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{{ppoem|In Shylock's bargain for the flesh was found
 * No mention of the blood that flowed around:

So when the stick was sawed in eight,
 * The sawdust lost diminished from the weight.}}

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{{ppoem|As curly-headed Jemmy was sleeping in bed, His brother John gave him a blow on the head; James opened his eyelids, and spying his brother, Doubled his fist, and gave him another. This kind of box then is not so rare; The lids are the eyelids, the locks are the hair, And so every schoolboy can tell to his cost, The key to the tangles is constantly lost.}}

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{{ppoem|end=follow|'Twixt "Perhaps" and "May be"
 * Little difference we see:}}