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Yet, sure, I must find favour in his eyes, or he would not have wrapt the cloth so deftly round my feet.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

This day, black Omens threat the brightest Fair, That e'er deserv'd a watchful spirit's care; Some dire disaster, or by force, or slight; But what, or where, the fates have wrapt in night.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander