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  • A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name,
    Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame,
    A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb
    Hourly inters poor mortals in its tomb;
    By ev'ry plague and ev'ry ill possess'd,
    Ev'n purgatory itself to thee 's a jest.