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146 but he soon found that his neutrality only procured abuse of both friends and foes; a discovery which he expresses thus:—

It was hard, he thought, that his friends should look coolly upon him, if, with a view to the wellbeing of his party, he gave no offence to the opposite faction,—if, as he puts it,

And he is almost querulous in his sensibility to public opinion, when he sings,—

It is as if he administered to himself the comfort which Adam gives Orlando—

But a candid study of the character of Theognis induces the impression that his neutrality was only fit-