“O my love!my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath，
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd;beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks……”
——William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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