The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.[707:4]

Fasti. iv. 311.

Footnotes

[707:1] See Chaucer, page [3].

[707:2] See Pope, page [344].

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.—Rabelais: Works, book iv. chap. xxxviii.

[707:3] See Watts, page [303].

[707:4] And the mind conscious of virtue may bring to thee suitable rewards.—Virgil: Æneid, i. 604.

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