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Like to Diana in her summer-weed,
Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye,
Goes fair Samela;
Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed
When wash'd by Arethusa Fount they lie,
Is fair Samela.

— Robert Greene Menaphon (1589)

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Fount] Walker's correction (Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare, &c. (1860) vol. 2, p. 268).—Both 4tos. "faint."

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