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Lament. i. 1.

Lament. i. 2.

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Nations is become as a Widow, the Queen of all Virtues is become contemptible. There is none in all the Land who dares call upon her, none who will stand over against us, none who by right can forbid this Blessed Union. All her Friends have despised her, and are become her Enemies.