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He whom desire doth make a slave, Possessed, as tyrant will behave.

What! here alone, dear Forlis! What's amiss? You do not oft shun company, I wis. "I was engaged communing with myself." Alas! how bored you most have been, poor elf!

Titus counted as lost the day Unsignalised by some good deed; But Maupou counts the other way, And mourns the day from evil freed,— And yet he mourns but few indeed.

Here lies the famous Cardinal Richelieu, Whose grave with tears I constantly bedew: If you should think my grief too great appears Know with him died my pension: hence these tears.

Since Bufo's picture never says a word To call it a good likeness is absurd. 104