“Against the despotism of this same Pope, when he was building the great Braschi Palace, Pasquin wrote these lines—
“‘Three jaws had Cerberus, and three mouths as well,
Which barked into the blackest deeps of hell.
Three hungry mouths have you—ay! even four,
Which bark at none, but every one devour.’
“During the French Revolution, and the occupation of Rome by the French, Pasquin uttered some bitter sayings, and among them this—
“‘I Francesi son tutti ladri—
Non tutti—ma Buona parte.’
(The French are all thieves—nay, not all, but a good part—or, in the original, Buonaparte.)
“Here also is one referring to the institution of the Cross of the Legion of Honour in France, which is admirable in wit—