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did I but purpose to embark with thee On the [[underline]] smooth surface of a summers [[/underline]] Sea. is her love to be more ruinous than [[deletion]] my [[/deletion]] [[addition]] her [[/addition]] hate, is he to be [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] destroyed [[/addition]] by her scorpion gratitude? -- the thought was intolerable, -- & in the benevolent enthusiasm of her Soul, she meditated a thousand disinterested projects, & then mistaking the imagination for the act, -- she soothed her mind by the heroical sacrifices she had resolved to make; -- he had ceased to love, -- as alone she could endure to be beloved -- she said to herself -- "I have
