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 moment or two, the dark frenzies which obscured the lonely tyrant's brain, as he heard Gay's voice with its simple melody and artless ringing laughter.

What used to be said about Rubini, qu'il avait des larmes dans la voix, may be said of Gay, and of one other humourist of whom we shall have to speak. In almost every ballad of his, however slight; in the