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The history of silk, cotton, linen, wool, and other fibrous substances : including observations on spinning, dyeing, and weaving : also an account of the pastoral life of the ancients, their social state and attainments in the domestic arts : with appendices on Pliny's Natural history, on the origin and manufacture of linen and cotton paper, on felting, netting, &c., deduced from copious and authentic sources (1845)

Gilroy, Clinton G · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 153

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my end draws nigh,Ill toil for her ; and when I die,Ill leave behind, as a farewell boon,To the proud young princess, my whole cocoon,To be reeled and wove to a shining lace,And hung in a veil oer her scornful face !And when she can calmly draw her breathThrough the very threads that have -caused…

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