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A MEDLEY.
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Not for three years to correspond with home;Not for three years to cross the liberties;Not for three years to speak with any men;And many more, which hastily subscribed,We enter'd on the boards: and 'Now' she cried'Ye are green wood, see ye warp not. Look, our hall!Our statues!—not of those that men desire,Sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode,Nor stunted squaws of West or East; but sheThat taught the Sabine how to rule, and sheThe foundress of the Babylonian wall,The Carian Artemisia strong in war,The Rhodope that built the pyramid,Clelia, Cornelia, with the PalmyreneThat fought Aurelian, and the Roman browsOf Agrippina. Leave us: you may go:To-day the Lady Psyche will harangueThe fresh arrivals of the week before;For they press in from all the provinces,And fill the hive.'
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