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Wee, of th'adult'rate mixture not complaine,But thence more Characters of Vertue gaine;More pregnant Patterns, of transcedent Worth,Than barren and insipid Truth brings forth:So, oft the Bastard nobler fortune meets,Than the dull Issue of the lawfull sheets.
Thomas Carew.

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