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 1     2|        him to whom he owed his birth),~And roved as safe as if
 2     3| present to our eyes before his birth,"~Said sage Melissa to the
 3     5|      good king, for wealth and birth~In all the realm, was none
 4     6|     but I cannot say~If at one birth, or after or before.~As
 5     6|       my belief, that Love had birth;~Where life is spent in
 6     7|      gentle smile receives its birth,~Which opes at will a paradise
 7     7|       of the noblest souls the birth,~Formed in the ideas of
 8    14|       deserve; if it is won~By birth, -- who boasts a genealogy~
 9    19|      prow, and side;~And every birth and cabin disencumber~Of
10    20|       Then, "Kinsman dear, thy birth to certify~No better sign
11    24|    warfare and such blows give birth,~As suits with warrior of
12    25|        tied;~Born with me at a birth; so like to view,~The family
13    26|      that noble bird, by fiery birth~Renewed, and ever single
14    27|      bitter fruit,~He from his birth would better have been mute.~ ~
15    29|         So good Orlando at his birth was charmed.~ ~ LXIII~When
16    30|     age, for twain~In right of birth before the warrior stood,~
17    33|      rejoiced of old~In giving birth to Coelus' godlike heir;~
18    33|     mighty matters said;~Whose birth should to that season be
19    34|       He, your Orlando, at his birth endowed~With sovereign daring
20    36|        Where, having given you birth, that spirit dear~Forthwith
21    42|      are there, equal in their birth,~Equal in country, honour,
22    43|       who denied~To me upon my birth a wealthy boon,~Nature that