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244 Nor this disturbed by any thought of me,
 * So scourged with ills' innumerable train,

New grief new tear begetteth not, as sea
 * Chafes not the more for deluge of the rain.

The "quaint foliage" is in the original "Arab leaves," arabe frondi, an interesting proof of the cultivation of exotic plants at the period.

The lady rejoins her husband at Milan, and Tansillo, landing on the Campanian coast, lately devastated by earthquakes and eruptions, finds everywhere the image of his own bosom, and rejoices at the opportunity which yawning rifts and chasms of earth afford for an appeal to the infernal powers:—

The poet s melancholy deepens, and he enters upon the stage of dismal and hopeless resignation to the inevitable:

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