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IVANHOE.
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and romantic monarch, perished all the projects which his ambition and his generosity had formed; and to him may be applied, with a slight alteration, the lines composed by Johnson for Charles of Sweden—

His fate was destined to a foreign strand,
A petty fortress and a "humble" hand;
He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

The End.


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Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.