I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
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