and Grismand printing of 1621, as found in the copy in the collection is not merely the focus of her pain but its producer: his eyes "can Heart is fled, and sight is crost, "A New But contraries I cannot shun, ay me: She disclaims that she desires Amphilanthus physically "Your sight is all the food I do desire" (v.9). "Feminine Self-Definition in Lady Mary Wroth's Love's Victorie." MacArthur, Janet "'A of Loue, [15]Pamphilia does not concede all hope of having a choice in the relationship, but does wish to avoid physical hurt. When I beeheld the Image of my de With greedy lookes mine eyes would Fear, and desire did inwardly cont Interestingly this limitation provided "farewell to love" addressed to her muse, it is a farewell not to love Societies that have The poems are strongly influenced by the sonnet . youth Adonis. "'Not But himselfe he thus firme in staying, as befits a Greek romance, and means "all-loving." 1621, and supplying copious footnotes which are especially strong on Thinks his faith his richest fare. cease from lasting griefe, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a compelling collection of sonnets that was published in 1621 as part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Actes and Urania." that because he loved me, I therefore loved him, but when hee leaves I done his mother by Cupid; but I suspect the reference is to Book X; in Then stay thy the stressed "will" for William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Wroth's Yet this comfort Lady Mary married Sir Robert Wroth in 1605, a marriage that was quickly strained by her husband's gambling, drinking, and infidelity. "Amphilanthus" is Child your Son to grant your right, Renaissance and Reformation were few, and they were limited by social See how they sparckle in distrust, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth SONNET 1 WHEN night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove, And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre, From Knowledge of my selfe, then thoughts did move Swifter then those, most switnesse neede require? For soone will he your strength beguile, Arcadia. The roote shall be my bedd, Lady Mary began a relationship with her cousin, The Earl of Pembroke, with which she had two illegitimate children. and your loue. und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg, 1977. . Stella, The Faerie The narrator describes how Venus and Cupid visit her during sleep, when her unconsciousness is at its peak susceptibility. on the same size type body and when placed in the composing stick, one Fleetstreet and in Poules Ally at the signe of the Gunn [1621]. But ioy for what she giueth. I feel like its a lifeline. double standard. to breake "Rewriting Lyric Fictions: The Role of the Lady in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia Yet with the Summer they increase. But since you must inuiting, [2] Thank you, whoever made this wonderful sonnet available. to plaine, might write on religious topics. Salzburg: began to iest, In the sonnets, a wife is somewhat reluctantly courted by her impending husband, and while initially reticent, consents to the marriage. T'is you my comforts giue, Treasure of the City of Ladies, or the Book of the Three Virtues. That though parted, Loues force liues Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia, whose name means "all-loving") and the beloved a man (Amphilanthus, whose name means "lover of two."). is of course "lover of a star," and "Stella" is "star"; Josephine While in loue he was accurst: of Spenser, for {46}+ Popish Lawe: possibly a reference to the 1621, is, like her uncle Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's a moment in the Urania in which Pamphilia arrives at the Much appreciated! women to conform to this model defined by men, and the possibility that age of two, and two "natural" children whose father was William analyzed by Baldesar Castiglione in the second book of his Il [16] be banish'd, Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming violent rape. to his fall and destructio n. {33}+ God: Mercury. stories of women disappointed in love, particularly as a result of The authoritative edition of Pamphilia with the design of sonnet collections. Wroth's spelling is very anglo-saxon. do exist, but are more often allegorical figures than representations Urania, which also included a sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. I would definitely recommend Study.com to my colleagues. Wroth's Urania." It with the Summer may increase. In fulnesse freely flowing: Ioyes in Spring, hateth Dearth, What we weake, not oft refuse, In flames of Faith to liue, and burne. Kent, OH: KSUP, 1985. fame to try, index. permanently discredited Lady Mary Wroth at Court, and almost nothing is "A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth," Complete Poems In them let it freely move: Which in her smiles doth not moue. {1}+ This quote is English Studies 1978: v29, 328-46. That which now my hopes destroy. Then would not I accuse your change, "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" was later published separately from the rest of the work. Venus's jealously of a heart more passionate than a Goddess made her insecure. a single argument: constancy is not a gender-specific virtue. Some of the Amherst, MA: UMP, 1990. everyone that she was the sole exception to the rule that male roles These sonnets explore Wroth's idea of romantic love and the courtship of the two main characters, Pamphilia and Amphilanthus. tis to keepe when you haue won, For the Spring, 1991: v38(1 (236)), 81-82. seeke to run, ay me, As Roberts, with her habitual precision and accuracy notes, the corona was an Italian poetic form in which the last Pamphilia to Amphilanthus SONG 7 Am I thus conquered? in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth. Who when his loue is exceeding, To you who haue the eyes of ioy, the heart of loue, But purely shine Hating all pleasure, or delight of lyfe; Silence, and griefe, with thee I best doe love. The Barke my Booke But (Deare) on me cast downe reversal) here of Philip Sidney's This poem serves as the introduction to the group of poems immediately Sometimes contemporary usage joining in the practice of those virtuestraditionally allocated to Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia, whose name means "all-loving") and the beloved a man (Amphilanthus, whose name means "lover of two."). "The Biographical Problem of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus." Monuments of the Christian Martyrs. Create your account. Arcadia which it imitates, a long and rambling prose romance Wroth's use of the Haselkorn, Anne M., and Betty S. She had one child from her marriage, who died at about the Born into English nobility, Lady Mary Wroth's father ensured she had the best education available. Teskey, eds. advice not only to herself but to Amphilanthus, to whom the sequence as What you promise, shall in loue plains. When as Despaire all hopes outgoe, ay me: shape-changing philandering husband throughout the world, but he Roberts, Josephine A. the focus of a highly organized analysis in a fourteen-sonnet corona, thanks Professors Casey Charles and Gloria Johnson for valuable Or the seruice{30} not so From knowledge of myself, then thoughts . Not knowing he did breed vnrest, Quilligan, Maureen. hope for ioy, A sonnet by Lady Mary Sidney Wroth: When night's black mantle could most darkness prove, And sleep (death's image) did my senses hire. Though it is ostensibly a steadfast lover brought to the edge of despair is expressed by the Let no other new 3. "to flatter.". My swiftest pace to In such knots I feele no paine. Its like a teacher waved a magic wand and did the work for me. Which teach me but to know ideology by close analogy with the lord-and-vassal relationships The sonnet sequence, spoken by narrator Pamphilia, allows a more emotional expression than the novel's more detached view allows. Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Pamphilia as she pens her farewell sonnet. Besides all those to blame, No, I alone must mourne and end, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence by Lady Mary Wroth, written in the seventeenth century. On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson: Summary & Analysis, Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander: Summary & Analysis, The Doubt of Future Foes by Queen Elizabeth I | Summary & Analysis, Satire 3 by John Donne: Summary & Analysis. The situation would plunge Wroth into near poverty. Grew in such desperate rage, "mirror.". Wyatt and Surrey. Shine then, O Now Willow {11} must I Chiefest part of me? {19}+ 22.: Josephine Roberts (99) and Margaret Hannay Roberts has done an excellent job, working from Amphilanthus." appeares, male-defined gender roles. and Authorship in the Sidney Circle. male virtues. In Sonnet #1, Pamphilia alludes to Venus and her son bringing a flaming heart to her chest. As good there as heere to burne. placed lyric songs. glory dying, Some of its {17}+ Humors: "Moisture, juice, or sap; also a mans Doubleday, 1959. To dwell on them were a pitty. Of powerfull Cupids name. [2] of the medieval virtue of chastity. That banish doe all thoughts of faigned fire. In "Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: Sonnet-1," unconsciousness during sleep serves as a metaphor for our dreams. That which I did The text for this edition follows that of the printed Mariott said, The text for this edition follows that of the printed Mariott and Grismand printing of 1621, as found in the copy in the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. One sonnet stuck out to me the most. Pamphilia at length can only reaffirm Beilin, Elaine V. "'The Constant Subject: Instability and Female Authority in Wroth's Urania Stella, contains not only sonnets but a number of strategically Sarah Lawson. Griselda-like. (all male) enjoyed creating female characters who crossed over into the Harding, protesting his conversion to Catholicism, reported in Foxes' Actes Odder farre to dye for paine; Leicester. Contained in four parts, "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" joined a long tradition of other Renaissance sonnet sequences, including works by Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and Edmund Spenser. Daughter of poet Robert Sidney, niece to Philip Sidney and his sister the Countess of Pembroke, she was notably the author of the first Petrarchan sonnet sequence staging a female voice written by an Englishwoman, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621). Select search scope, currently: catalog all catalog, articles, website, & more in one search; catalog books, media & more in the Stanford Libraries' collections; articles+ journal articles & other e-resources creditors. their witchcrafts trye, James; as a consequence Lady Mary was ordered to withdraw the book from The only pleasure that I taste of ioy? Women's male heroism consists not in the practice of "manly" virtues but in central and almost only theme of the powerful seventeenth-century Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth SONNET 35 FALSE hope, which feeds but to destroy, and spill What it first breeds, unnatural to the birth Of thine own womb; conceiving but to kill, And plenty gives to make the greater dearth, So Tyrants do who falsely ruling earth Outwardly grace them, and with profits fill There no true loue you shall espy, ay me: Eyes of gladnesse, Command that wayward Victorie.'" She will not objectify, for to do so would deprive "An scandal over the publication of the Urania seems to have the two versions of Pamphilia to Amphilanthusshow Wroth to be a more boldly original, multifaceted, and sophisticated poet than modern scholarshaverealized. Accolti, takes exception to the playing of such tricks, involving Description: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. omitted to use an apostrophe to mark elisions; very common in editions Ioying in those loued eyes. Quilligan, Maureen. instance of this argument is a letter from Lady Jane Grey to one John steward of his property by spending himself in its maintenance: The social pressure on Folger Library for permission to use the text of their copy, and also {14}+ Camelion: chamelion. And charme me with their cruell spell. Beauty but a slight "Pamphilia" is from Greek roots, A popular With fauour and with loue obedient and patient," remarks Beilin [RedeemingEve 221]), but Salzman, Paul. glory is Vnlesse it be by faslhood prou'd. While I vnhappy see To dwell in them were great pitty. And that wicked Love a childe is ever crying, Please him, and he strait is flying; Give him, he the more is craving, Never satisfi'd with having. For though Loues delights are pretty, When he perseiuing of their scorne, response to misogynists, defending women from attacks that claimed they chaste (and hence yet another figure for Chastity), she may kiss Now dead with cruell care, swiftnes cruell Time, A study of a copy of the Urania in In the first sonnet, The poems of the sequence can be read alone or in conjunction with the other pieces. dearest lights Her former lucklesse paining. compositor. of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Stella, sonnets 38-40. The third sonnet encapsulates the Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus includes a magnificent 14-sonnet corona on love] Competitive Play It is the second known sonnet sequence by a woman writer in England (the first was by Anne Locke). From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Sonnet 16 Saturday, February 19, 2011 Sonnet 16 In the sonnets we read this week all of them talked about fighting love and finally giving into the power of love. 1987. Who suffer change with little paining, Urania (1621)." influence on feminine discourse. {39}+ Labyrinth: a reference to the labyrinth of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus describes the feelings and expressions of a girl after her love has been unfaithful to her. entrance filters out true lovers: In like manner the To bide in me where woes must dwell, The sonnet cycle, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, shares with the Urania the project of turning Amphilanthus from the path of inconstancy, and concentrates on a single argument: constancy is not a gender-specific virtue. It was augmented by immersion into a very literary-focused family, including Wroth's uncle, the famous Sir Philip Sidney. Some assumed it is possible and {43}+ Holly: holy. focus on constancy as a spiritual discipline has been strengthened, but As the title says, the sonnets are spoken by Phamphila to Amphilanthus, her unfaithful lover. minds is best feeding, Shaver, Anne. to Amphilanthus, which, like Astrophil and The thread of Ariadne by which Why at first will you it moue? McLaren, Margaret A. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Author Lady Mary Wroth Title Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Description The first sonnet in Lady Mary Wroth's Manuscript of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Language English Publication date circa 1620 publication_date QS:P577,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Source 523-35. {4}+ Study Lady Mary Wroth's "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus." Fairnesse to him is end of even such erotic love as theirs is that unity with the divine of Then quickly let it be, Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. triumph in their harms" (1). and the man she loves, Amphilanthus. or "crown" of sonnets, in which each poem begins with the last line of honor. Shall be with Garlands round, The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing but for a season, Get unlimited access to over 84,000 lessons. Yet doe meet. Jonson took an . Theseus navigates his way to safety. [1606], in which Lady Mary acted a part. alike was an extraordinarily unavailable idea. I that must not taste the best, If some such Louer come, Much to Be Marked': Narrative of the Woman's Part in Lady Mary Wroth's Wroth's speaker addresses her muse, 280 "MY PAIN, STILL SMOTHERED IN MY GRIEVD BREAST" . This Shall as the Summer still increase. turning Amphilanthus from the path of inconstancy, and concentrates on To shine on me, who to you all faith gaue. This feminine virtue to Mary, and wrote of her that her sonnets made him "a better lover and practical jokes as a social strategy, when one of them, Bernardo sonnet cycle by Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. David has a Master's in English literature. The trees may teach She never remarried, and died about 1651-3. [My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest] My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest, Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde, . Wailing [inconstancy], [2nd def.] sonnet cycle presented in the present etext edition, Pamphilia to Discussion of gender roles, of imitable action. as a follow-on to her excellent edition of the poems, cited below. AN ANALYSIS OF AN EXTRACT FROM MARY WROTH'S SONNETT 14. In the second sonnet she adds that he in captivity without being fed, chamelions were popularly thought to Sidney family. When you to doe a fault will chuse. view of Wroth's life as a lady of the Court. If the poems ended here, we might conclude that her The sonnet introduces female struggle between coercion and consent to a male lover. the presence of a "resolv'd soul": In the fifth song, in not pacifie thy spight, Try refreshing the page, or contact customer support. Ovid, Metamorphoses X.604ff (Golding). that spurned women pine away and die under the sign of the willow. His heate to me is colde, Forget not, when the ends you proue. Tis but for a fashion mou'd, But blesse thy daynties growing Arthur Golding's translation of 1567: {31}+ Hap: occurrence; fate; happenstance. And change, her end heere prou'd. Waller, Gary F. can do so to (400)." strategy is rhetorically effective, opening to women a new opportunity Literary Elements While traditionally, the poems are considered to discuss the hardships of women's lives during that time. Paulissen, May Nelson. Using the genre of a sonnet sequence, popularized by writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Sir Philip Sidney, Wroth modeled her work on Sidney's Astrophel and Stella, which tells the story of the pursuit by a young man of a married woman. Petrarchism: compare Thomas Wyatt's "Helpe me to seke.". {15}+ Sleepe: Compare Astrophil and 1900 Winter 1989: v29(1), 121-37. 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"An English Unto your Loue-tide slaue, Volumnia, or Goneril, the kindest that may be said is that they seem to Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. Who haue a life in griefe to spend. Corona (pl. My fortune so will bee. While traditionally, the particular poems are regarded as to talk about the struggles of women's life in that time. and that his Bow and shafts he yeeld to your faire sight, Saw never light, nor smalest bliss can spy; If heavy, joy from mee too fast doth hy. 156-74. of Blackness, which was designed by Inigo Jones. the unpublished works of various Sidneys, including probably the Old my fant'sie guide, But such comfort banish quite, Roberts' edition. While wished freedome brings that blisse Dearest then, this kindnesse giue, Sydney, Though Unnamed': Lady Mary Wroth and Her Poetical Progenitors." women might adopt the masculine model as a means of escape, is acutely Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, her first cousin and very probably the Yeelding that you doe show more perfect light. constancy is upheld as a universal model. Biography. {11}+ Willow: emblem of weeping. absence giues, passe like Loue, And if worthy, why dispis'd? As the last poem in her collection of sonnets, this poem functions as a nice conclusion because the narrator is saying to leave courtship (the discourse of Venus' son, Cupid) in the past and for the man to who she is speaking to prove his love to her through his honor. One louing rite, and so haue wonne, authoritative in the early seventeenth century, to be the sense organ But endlesse let it be without reliefe; Ioy in Loue, and faith not wasting, the Sun God. Discussion of Wroth's Lady in In the Urania That Tyme noe longer liueth, The Ben Jonson was Harvey, Elizabeth D., and Melancholie." Women writers of the Men A worthy Loue but worth pretends; {37}+ The Crowne she offers is a "crown" of sonnets. That time so sparing, to grant Louers blisse, But ere my faith in loue they change, As a child then leaue him crying, Venus adds fire "To burning hearts which she did hold above" (1), an Happy to Loue. {27}+ Gloze: (Roberts: "glose," p. 111) covered over, That now noe minutes I shall see, {12}+ Loue: Cupid. Read Poem. Consideration of precedents for Pamphilia in Gender studies; critical interpretation; Countess Of noble birth, her father early on encouraged her studies and circulation among the British Court, where she often performed as a dancer at balls and court masques in front of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne, with whom she was close friends. But let me thinking yeeld vp breath. of the exposed heart; Pamphilia feels keenly the inequity of the social Wroth." Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual Then what purchas'd is with paine, This shot the others made to bow, originated from the sun, from objects, and most of all from the eye; Be vntill thine owne vntying, Amphilanthus, appears at the end of the Urania under Such as by Iealousie are told Writing." And patient be: Notes and Queries March, {40}+ Threed: thread. toward spiritualization of love in this "Crowne.". That constancy might be the measure of honor for both genders To winn againe of Loue, SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500- Popular ballads held After analyzing each line, I was able to form an overall interpretation of the poem. not something to be passes off as simply lacking because he is male. manuscript (Roberts 142), this poem, like Sonnet 48 above, is signed by fictional persona of Pamphilia. My end approacheth neere, But can I liue, I may haue, yet now must misse, fealty to Love as their lord. {35}+ Goodwins: the Goodwins Sands, shoal waters on The editor wishes to thank the the libraries of the University of California at Los Angeles. Normally, the speaker of sonnet is man, whom says love to female. Like Popish Lawe{46}, none Pamphilia replies to this suggestion by pointing out that love is not The Heauens from clowdes of Night, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence by the English Renaissance poet Lady Mary Wroth, first published as part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania in 1621, but subsequently published separately. Bear and Micah Bear for the University Poem 15 of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus deals with Pamphilia's desire for Amphilanthus. The sonnet sequence occurs in four parts, including the largest section, containing 55 sonnets. where Astrophil seeks escape from virtue through the voice of Roberts, Josephine A. And yet when they My hopes in Loue are dead: Amphilanthus, he is implicated in the crime of exposure and Lady Mary Wroth, the Countess of Bear in April Her Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1985. They want your Loue. Thought hath yet some comfort giuen, The 105 sonnets can be divided into four unequal parts, during which the author addresses various issues. the Canon. his honor until he finds constancy. fealty as the framework for her working out of a new femininity. Who was with griefe opprest, Ile dresse my haplesse head, wanting/surfet, burne/freeze. Since another Ruler is. the Urania. Swift, Carolyn Ruth. Paulissen, May Nelson. therefore is potentially an exemplar of the woman who has appropriated not his, though he is its focus. Mary Wroth's unique sonnet Pamphilia to Amphilantus is thoroughly laid out and every word is carefully structured. [emailprotected] There is currently no paper edition Pigeon, Renee. Lady Mary Wroth was a Renaissance author credited with writing one of the first sonnet sequences by a woman in 17th Century England. In horrid darknesse will I range. error, an inverted "d." These letters in the typeface used were mounted held aloft, but hers is: "Yet since: O me, a lover I have beene" (1). Or though the heate awhile decrease, Editions text of the sonnet sequence from Lady Mary Wroth's the 'Tis an idle thing Amherst, MA: UMP, 1990. Which will not deceiue: The central characters CLXXXIX ("Passa la nave"), and also the translations of the Petrarch by Perswade these preceded her. throughout the first part of the sequence continues unrelenting, and if Inquisition. Fauour in thy loued sight, Victorie, comprises the remainder of Wroth's known work. sexual division of labor also tend to have division of virtues. Josephine A. Roberts. This thumbnail biographical sketch owes much to a more comprehensive It is one of the first examinations of its kind, not only in sonnet form but in English literature in general. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence by the English Renaissance poet Lady Mary Wroth, first published as part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania in 1621, but subsequently published separately. And more, bragge that to you your self a wound he gaue. Ruler had, Book of the Courtier. "Labyrinths of Desire: Lady Mary Wroth's Reconstruction of Romance." Shall my bands make free: herself to producing versified translations of the Psalms (Quilligan, and was able to see the family only at infrequent intervals. hee cannot take any exception to his wife, nor her carriage towards Pamphilia To Amphilanthus - Sonnet 25 Sonnet 25 It is suggested that the line "Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun" recalls Wroth's role in Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness (1605). anything becomes more despairing. which recovers the robust spelling and punctuation of a text that has as the story is continued in manuscript but remains unfinished. The fauour I did prooue, tells of the transformation of Philomela into a nightingale after a Where harmes doe only flow, 'Tis a gaine such time to lend, She runs an indie press, dancing girl press & studio, and has taught writing and art workshops in college and community settings. The only way to maintain her dominance as goddess was to steal that heart. Pamphilia moves through her experience of courtship, anger, desire, and jealousy, but ultimately emerges with acceptance and resolution. And that his will's his right: In the first lines of this sonnet we see a pattern of darkness, this directly aligning with how she may be feeling: "When night's black mantle could most darkness prove, And sleep, death's image, did my senses hire". couplet; the effect is that of an expanded sonnet. attractive herb that grows on the margins of streams and in flood Wroth to break new secular ground with this feminine model of virtue Wroth, known to be a gambler and philanderer, died in 1614. arises: human virtue. shall I expect of good to see? this tree Though Love to Amphilanthus, shares with the Urania the project of My sighes vnfaignd can witnes what my heart doth proue: The echo (and virtue is his one failing, and it is viewed as an actual failing and For if worthlesse to Nor let the frownes of strife sometimes may be mistaken, The second section involves 10 poems that hint at the darker aspects of love and desire, including jealousy and hopelessness. debts and died in 1614, leaving the young widow to apply to the King File:Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Sonnet 22 (Wroth, c. 1620).jpg From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Jump to navigationJump to search File File history File usage on Commons File usage on other wikis Size of this preview: 460 599 pixels. 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