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That the abusing of your ear's a crime, Above th' excuse any six lines in rhyme Can make, the poet knows: I am but sent T' intreat he may not be a precedent; For he does think, that in this place there be Many have done't as much and more than he. But here's, he says, the difference of the fates: He begs a pardon after't, they estates.