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  • Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M'Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to ravish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.

    -William Edmonstoune Aytoun
      'The Massacre of the Macpherson', stanza1.

  • Take me toYou, imprison me, for I, Except You enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me.

    -John Donne
    c.1610^1615  Holy Sonnets, no.14.

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