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 Rh hatred of gold and the things that perish, rendered him indeed well able to have exclaimed:

"In innocency I have washed my hands."

His poetry (and he has written a great deal) was mostly unintelligible, but not so much so as the works written in the manner of the present one. Generally speaking, he seems to have published those most mysterious. That which could be discerned was filled [with] imagery and fine epithet. What but admiration can be expressed of such poetry as this: