Of those in office: all the world looked kind,

(As it will look sometimes with the first stare,

Which Youth would not act ill to keep in mind,)

As also did Miss Protasoff[523] then there,[JS]

Named from her mystic office "l'Eprouveuse,"

A term inexplicable to the Muse.

LXXXV.

With her then, as in humble duty bound,

Juan retired,—and so will I, until

My Pegasus shall tire of touching ground.