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From Nothing comes Nothing, and there remains Nothing.
From a Copy-Book in the Blue-Coat Hospital.
Transcriber’s Footnotes
[A.] “Why are Doll’s teeth so white...”
This verse is a translation of Martial V.43:
Thaïs habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes.
Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos.
[B.] P. S. Quintus = Pope Sixtus V. (Quintus)