Upon the burning of our house analysis line by line
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Explain the meaning of lines 17-18 in Bradstreet’s “Upon the Burning of Our House.”
That laid my goods now in the dust: 15
Yea so it was, and so 'twas just. 16
It was his own: it was not mine; 17
Far be it that I should repine. 18
He might of all justly bereft, 19
But yet sufficient for us left. 20