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xxxviii The lover supposes his lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice:

That the chaos was harmonised, has been recited of old; but whence the different sounds arose remained for a modern to discover:

The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account; but Donne has extended them into worlds. If the lines are not easily understood, they may be read again: