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with promises of a post caring for his wife, but she is then confined in a cave and subject to much the same punishment. These punishments are mostly the same throughout, even when she goes to a
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that characterized his later writing, as it was written in the classical style (which was fashionable at the time), with much verbose and metaphorical description.
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