I'm not to blame, as you well know—no more is
Any one else—they were become traditional;
Besides, their resurrection aids our glories
By contrast, which is what we just were wishing all:
And Science profits by this resurrection—
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
XXXII.
Their friends had tried at reconciliation,[E]
Then their relations, who made matters worse.
('T were hard to tell upon a like occasion