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DEFENSE AGAINST CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM by ANNE KILLIGREW

First Line: THE ENVIOUS AGE, ONLY TO ME ALONE
Last Line: TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, ALTHOUGH BELIEVED TOO LATE.
Subject(s): PLAGIARISM;
The envious age, only to me alone,
Will not allow what I do write my own;
But let them rage, and 'gainst a maid conspire,
So deathless numbers from my tuneful lyre
Do ever flow; so Phoebus, I by thee
Inspired divinely, and possest may be;
I willingly accept Cassandra's faith,
To speak the truth, although believed too late.



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