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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Known
Parks
June
Take
Opera
Tune
Think
Lady
Bold
Thinking
Loves
Midnight
Perhaps
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Cold
Reign
Practice
Tunes
Fevers
Though
Sickness
Fever

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