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Now when Aldeboran° was mounted hie Above the shynie Cassiopeias chaire,° And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie, One knocked at the dore,° and in would fare; He knocked fast, and often curst, and sware, That readie entrance was not at his call: For on his backe a heavy load he bare Of nightly stelths, and pillage severall, Which he had got abroad by purchase criminall.