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Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures tried;
The saint sustained it, but the woman died.

Source: Epitaph on Mrs Corbet
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.

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