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Rh But he's a man of general learning, and all comes into his play.

Twould have done well too if he could have met with a rant or two, worth the observation; such as,

"But surely the sun, whether he flies a lover's or not a lover's pace, leaves weeks and months, nay, years too, behind him in his race.

"Poor Robin, or any other of the Philo-mathematicks, would have given him satisfaction in the point.

"Now where that is, Almanzor's fate is fixt, I cannot guess; but, wherever it is, I believe Almanzor, and think that all Abdalla's subjects, piled upon one another, might not pull down his fate so well as without piling: besides, I think Rh