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- I should myself make something clear.
- Please do.
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On the night I was informed
of my translation into bliss,
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I'd attended several taverns,
witnessed a bear-baiting
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and was in Southwark, sampling
the pleasures of a lady of the night.
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Thus far, I have to tell you,
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it had been a very good evening.
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Still...
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...duty calls.
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Dearly beloved friends,
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we are gathered here in the sight of God
and the face of His congregation,
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to join together this man and
this woman in holy matrimony,
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which is an honourable estate
instituted of God in paradise
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in the time of man's innocence
and therefore not to be enterprised,
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nor taken in hand inadvisedly,
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lightly or wantonly to satisfy
men's carnal lusts and appetites,
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like brute beasts
that have no understanding,
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but reverently, discreetly, advisedly,
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soberly, and in the fear of God.