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Ay me, alas, heigh ho, heigh ho!

Thus doth Messalina go

Up and down the house a-crying,

For her monkey lies a-dying.

Death, thou art too cruel

To bereave her of her jewel,

Or to make a seizure

Of her only treasure.

If her monkey die,

She will sit and cry,

Fie fie fie fie fie!

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