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[801:2] See Scott, page [494].

Borrowed from Lefranc de Pompignan's "Didon."

[801:3] See Cowper, page [424].

[801:4] See Gibbon, page [430].

Bussy Rabutin: Lettres, iv. 91. Sévigné: Lettre à sa Fille, p. 202. Tacitus: Historia, iv. 17. Terence: Phormio, i. 4. 26.

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MADAME DU DEFFAND.  1697-1784.

He [Voltaire] has invented history.[801:5]

It is only the first step which costs.[801:6]

In reply to the Cardinal de Polignac.