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TENNYSONIANA.
Shakespeare.
"Lord of my love, to whom in vassalageThy merit hath my duty strongly knit To thee I send this written embassage, To witness duty, not to show my wit." Sonnet 26.
"Many a holy and obsequious tearHath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye As interest of the dead," &c. Sonnet 31.