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1   T-I|      this entire volume,~was composed in the troubled days of
2   T-V|      though for my part I’ve composed nothing for the theatre,~
3   T-V|   proper feet,~no verses are composed, or only such as you see,~
4   ExI| Abortive Poem~ ~I send words composed in elegiac measure, Ovid~
5   ExI|      Yet you read this verse composed amid fierce battles,~and
6   ExI|   your name,~I’d deny it was composed by a youth of Thrace:~and
7 ExIII|    that if it’s thought I’ve composed~notes on adultery, which
8  ExIV|        Pompey, accept a poem composed by one~who’s indebted to
9  ExIV|      whose verse you’d think~composed by the sea-green gods themselves:~