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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
As Mothers do their Children keep,So Nature feeds, and makes us sleep:The indispos'd she does inviteTo go to Bed before 'tis night.Death always is to come, or past:If it be ill, it cannot last.Sure 'tis a thing was never known;For when that's present, we are gone.'Tis an imaginary Line,Which does our being here confine.Dead we shall be, as when unborn;And then I knew nor Love, nor Scorn.But say we are to live elsewhere,What has the Innocent to fear?Can I be treated worse than here?Justice from hence long since is gone,And reigns where I shall be anon.

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