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Great troupes of people traveild thitherward Both day and night, of each degree and place,° But few returned, having scaped hard,° With balefull beggerie, or foule disgrace; Which ever after in most wretched case, Like loathsome lazars,° by the hedges lay. Thither Duessa bad him bend his pace: For she is wearie of the toilesome way, And also nigh consumed is the lingring day.