[682:1] Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). Addison: Spectator, No. 421.

[683:1]

Hope told a flattering tale,

That Joy would soon return;

Ah! naught my sighs avail,

For Love is doomed to mourn.

Anonymous (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320.

[683:2] Beaumont and Fletcher: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. sc. 3.

[683:3] Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii.

[684:1] Altered by Johnson (1783),—