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Within a bower the womb I left, / 'Midst dames and maids who stood to aid; / They wrapped me first in silken weft, / And next in scarlet red array'd.
But a stepdame soon 'twas my lot to get, / And fierce and wild she proved to me; / Within a coffer me she set, / And pushed it out upon the sea.