“The beauty in her lover's eyes
Was admiration of her own.”
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Book II, Canto II, III Lais and Lucretia.
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“The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is — to die.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 29, Song, st. 2.
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