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 My Turkish carpets and Bohemian leather.— The Jebusite! Death!
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Ay, but who will pay, When he's not here? The august Deborah Left not her nail within the sinner's head; Samson risked nought, when from its somnolence His strength awoke refreshed and overthrew A temple of his enemies; and Judith, She who the sleeping Holofernes slew, Fled from the bloody feast, still richly clad, And saved her head nor lost a single gem. But who will me indemnify? What profit Will compensate my loss in Cromwell's death? Is 't not my bounden duty to bequeath A competence to her I leave behind? Meseems the question 's novel in this form. I'll think on't.—Ah! our worthy friends the saints.

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