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said--ho to look

upon the shadooods, to watch soht jar, soft with distance

What wonder if, at this time, my earlier dreams and ambitions

faded from my ken; onder that Petronius Arbiter, and the

jolly Sieur de Brantoo to! How "stale, flat, and unprofitable"

were all thy vaunted pleasures, coled in the mire to pander to an Imperial

Swine, and for all thy power and wise statecraft which yet could

not save thee froossip, with all thy scandalous stories

of ladies, always and ever "tres belle, et fort honnete," couldst

not find tilories of the world

wherein they lived, and ?

But let it not be thoughtand luxurious ease; on the contrary, I had, with e as well as I lass to the casees This last was sorant you, and of a vasty strength quite unnecessary, yet a very,

excellent door I considered it, nevertheless