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 equivocal. Whenever Mr. Southey shews the sincerity of his former professions of zeal in behalf of Spanish liberty, by writing an elegy on the death of Porlier, or a review of the conduct of Ferdinand VII. (he is a subject worthy of Mr. Southey's prose style), or by making the lame tailor of Madrid (we forget his name) the subject of an epic poem, we will retract all that we have said in disparagement of his consistency—But not till then.

We meant to have quoted several other passages, such as that in which old Praxis, that is, Experience, recommends it to the Princess to maintain the laws by keeping all that is old, and adding all that is new to them—that in which he regrets the piety and learning of former times, and then promises us a release from barbarism and brutishness by the modern invention of Sunday schools—that in which he speaks of his own virtues and the wisdom of his friends—that in which he undertakes to write a martyrology.—But we are very tired of the subject, and the verses are not worth quoting. There is a passage in Racine which is; and with that, we take our leave of the Laureate, to whom it may convey some useful hints in explanation of his ardent desire for the gibbeting of Bonaparte and the burning of Paris:— "Nabal.—Que peut vous inspirer une haine si forte? Est-ce que de Baal le zèle vous transporte? Pour moi, vous le savez, descendu d'Ismaël, Je ne sers ni Baal ni le Dieu d'Israel. Mathan.—Ami, peux-tu penser que d'un zèle frivole Je me laisse aveugler pour une vaine idole! Né ministre du Dieu qu'en ce temple on adore, Peut-être que Mathau le serviroit encore, Si l'amour des grandeurs, la soif de commander, Avec son joug étroit pouvoient s'accommoder. Qu'est-il besoin, Nabal, qu'à tes yeux je rappelle De Joad et de moi la fameuse querelle? Vaincu par lui j'entrai dans une autre carrière, Et mon âme à la cour s'attacha tout entière. J'approchai par degrés l'oreille des rois; Et bientôt en oracle on erigea ma voix. J'étudiai leur cœur, je flattai leurs caprices, Je leur semai de fleurs le bord des précipices:"