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The monster London laugh at me.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
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the City
Monster
Monsters
London
Laugh
Laughing

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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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