CENCIAJA.
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Feigned ignorance of who the wight might be
That pressed too closely on him with a crowd,
And struck the Cardinal a blow: and then,
To put a face upon the incident,
Dared next day, smug as ever, go pay court
I' the Cardinal's antichamber. Mark and mend,
Ye youth, by this example how may greed
Vainglorious operate in worldly souls!'
That pressed too closely on him with a crowd,
And struck the Cardinal a blow: and then,
To put a face upon the incident,
Dared next day, smug as ever, go pay court
I' the Cardinal's antichamber. Mark and mend,
Ye youth, by this example how may greed
Vainglorious operate in worldly souls!'
So ends the chronicler, beginning with
"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never till it reach delinquency."
Ay. or how otherwise had come to pass
That Victor rules, this present year, in Rome?
"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never till it reach delinquency."
Ay. or how otherwise had come to pass
That Victor rules, this present year, in Rome?
