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——the will itself dependent

Upon a storm, a straw, and both alike

Leading to death——.—[MS. M.]

[57] [Compare—"The boldest steer but where their ports invite." Childe Harold, Canto III. stanza Ixx. lines 7-9; and Canto IV. stanza xxxiv., Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 260, 353, and 74, note 1.]

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"Our voices took a dreary tone,

An echo of the dungeon stone."

Prisoner of Chillon, lines 63, 64.

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