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The grave, great teacher, to a level brings. Heroes, and beggars, galley-slaves, and kings; But Theodore, this moral learn'd, e'er dead; Fate pour'd its lesson on his living head, Bestow'd a kingdom, and deny'd him bread.

To return to the affairs of the island. The Genoese, eager to repress the rise in 1734, hired some Swiss and Grisons, who from being accustomed to such a country at home, might scour the mountains of Corsica. But these soldiers found it no easy matter to scour mountains, where the natives were continually firing upon them, and had numberless ways of escaping. They soon saw that they had made a bad bargain, and that they gave the Genoese too much blood for their money.

Genoa had also recourse to the desperate expedient of Marius and Sylla. She published an