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88 In this froth, just observers see The emblem of French vivacity. The following day new joys inspires, It brings new pleasures and desires. Mentor, Telemachus descant Upon frugality, and vaunt Your Ithaca and your Salentum To ancient Greeks, since they content them: Since Greeks in abstinence could find Ample supplies of every kind. The work, though not replete with fire, I for its elegance admire: But I'll be whipped Salentum through If thither I my bliss pursue. Garden of Eden, much renowned, Since there the devil and fruit were found, Huetius, Calmet, learned and bold, Inquired where Eden lay of old: I am not so critically nice, Paris to me's a paradise.