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THE NURSE'S DOLE IN THE MEDEA by EURIPIDES

First Line: OH HOW I WISH THAT AN EMBARGO
Last Line: DAMN'D BUSINESS FOR MY MISS MEDEA, ETC., ETC.

OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunch'd from Grecian docks,
Had never pass'd the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.



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