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Respice Finem

Francis Quarles

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on;
Judge not the play before the play is done:
Her plot hath many changes; every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.
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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919
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