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  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 4

                                  "Hinc pallidorum longa morborum cohors

                                   Turpisque egestas sequitur," &c.

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 6

                        "Chez cette race nouvelle

                             Où j'aurai quelque crédit,

                         Vous ne passerez pas pour belle

                             Qu'autant que je l'aurai dit.


                         Pensez-y, belle Marquise;

                             Quoiqu'un grison fasse effroi,...

  • The First Half of the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 1

          "North and South too many an hour

                I've by the skipper held the wheel;

           Seen too many a hissing shower

                O'er my old sou'-wester reel."