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Encircle the intensifiers and emphatic tenses in the following excerpt from Sir Charles Sedley's translation of “To a Man That Locked Up His Wife” from Ovid's Amours.

"To a Man That Locked Up His Wife "

Vex not thyself and her, vain man, since all By their own vice or virtue stand or fall. She's truly chaste, and worthy of that name, Who hates the ill, as well as fears the shame And that vile woman whom restraint keeps in, Though she forbear the act, has done the sin. Spies, locks and bolts may keep her brutal part, But thou'rt an odious cuckold in her heart. They that have freedom use it least, and so The power of ill does the design o'er throw. Provoke not vice by a too harsh restraint, Sick men long most to drink, who know thy may'nt. The fiery courser, whom no art can stay Or rugged force, does oft fair means obey: And he that did the rudest arm disdain, Submits with quiet to the looser rein. An hundred eyes had Argos, yet the while One silly maid did all those eyes beguile.​

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