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  • But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.

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