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JOAN OF ARC.
Of wretchedness caused by the wars they waged,The towns they burnt, (for they who bribe to war 640Are guilty of the blood) the widows leftIn want, the slave or led to suicide,Or murdered by the foul infected airOf his close dungeon, or more sad than all,His virtue lost, his very soul enslaved, 645And driven by woe to wickedness."These next,Whom thou beholdest in this dreary room,So sullen, and with such an eye of hateEach on the other scowling, these have beenFalse friends. Tormented by their own dark thoughts 650Here they dwell: in the hollow of their heartsThere is a worm that feeds! and tho' thou seestThat skilful leech who willingly would healThe ill they suffer, judging of all elseBy their own evil standard, they suspect 655The aid he vainly proffers, lengthening thusBy vice its punishment."

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