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  • Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
    But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
    Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
    Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
    Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
    Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
    The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

    "Oedipus: A Tragedy".