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"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."

John Cleveland, English Poet

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"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."

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"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."

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