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How fair these names, how much unlike they look

To all the blurr'd subscriptions in my book!

The bridegroom's letters stand in row above,

Tapering, yet straight, like pine-trees in his grove;

While free and fine the bride's appear below,

As light and slender as her jessamines grow.

CRABBE.

ST. JUDE's day came, the term assigned