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 your as a performance at court, that sixteen years after, Tasso is reported to have gone secretly to Florence, on purpose to thank Buontalenti the artist, for getting up his play in a beautiful manner. He saluted him, kissed him on the forehead, and then left the city without paying his respects to his admirer the Grand Duke; a piece of romance, by which perhaps he chose to indulge himself in confining his respects to intellectual power, and in venting a secret spleen on those assumptions of worldly greatness, which had long begun to resent and worry his own. The success of Aminta was the last sunshine of his life. His temper was naturally impatient: he had met with the success, of all others the most dangerous to it, that of pleasing men who, with all his panegyrics upon them, could honour him more in the eyes of others than his own; and envy