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JANUARY and MAY.
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With that, she leap'd into her Lord's embrace,
With well-dissembled virtue in her face:
He hugg'd her close, and kiss'd her o'er and o'er,
Disturb'd with doubts and jealousies no more:
Both, pleas'd and bless'd, renew'd their mutual vows,
A fruitful wife, and a believing spouse.
Thus ends our tale, whose moral next to make,
Let all wise husbands hence example take,
And pray, to crown the pleasures of their lives,
To be so well deluded by their wives.

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