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Well may you blaspheme at fortune!

I "threw Venus" (Ben, expound!)

65 Never did I need importune

Her, of all the Olympian round.

Blessings on my benefactress!

Cursings suit—for aught I know—

Those who twitched her by the back tress,

Tugged and thought to turn her—so!