Or not-so-great La Roque,—is taken back

By neither, any more than Bergerac!

CXLIX

Too true! or rather, true as ought to be!

No more of Paul the man, Malcrais the maid,

Thenceforth forever! One or two, I see,

Stuck by their poet: who the longest stayed

Was Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and even he

Seemingly saddened as perforce he paid

A rhyming tribute: "After death, survive—