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Fair while she was and when she was not fair

DMI number:
13698
First Line:
Fair while she was and when she was not fair
Last Line:
Some ruins more than other buildings are
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Beauty
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Author:
William Cartwright
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Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from To the memory of the most virtuous Mrs Ursula Sadleir, who dyed of a Feaver ('Thou whitest soul thou thine own day'). Chalmers (1810) VI: 541-542. Evans (1951): 547-549.
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