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So, too, the body will shut in the belly's wind,
which, when it labours to come forth again from its deep dungeon, prizes forth a way
by sharp blows: and[p. 349] there is no end to the cold shiver which rules
the cramped frame, till a warm sweat bedews and loosens the body.
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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