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of a milder disposition, declared, That it would not only be too much a cruelty, but bring their own lives into question; therefore considering women were generally more taken with the beauty of the body than the soul, they judged fit to deform him in person but how to do it they knew not; for at last they all resolved to disfigure his face with wounds and put an end to the passion on to it dear Lucinda, when they knew no other way to extinguish.
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