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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

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George Crabbe
Age: 79 †
Born: 1754
Born: December 24
Died: 1834
Died: February 3
Entomologist
Medicine
Poet
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Aldeburgh
Suffolk
Weak
Pretty
Wife
Speak
Would
Think
Trifling
Thinking
Childish
Cease

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