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Rh Fit consummation of an earthly race

Begun in folly, ended in disgrace,

While none but menials o'er the bed of death,

Wash thy red wounds, or watch thy wavering breath:

Traduced by liars, and forgot by all,

The mangled victim of a drunken brawl,

To live like, and like fall.