"La buona coscienza che l'uom franchigia,
Sotto l'usbergo di sentirsi pura."—Dante.
[62] "To what am I reserved?" writes Angelo in another piece. "To live long? that terrifies me. The shortest life is yet too long for the recompense obtained in serving with devotion."
[63] "Ahi, che null altro che pianto al mondo dura!"—Petrarca.
[64] "Ogni altro ben val men ch'una mia doglia!"
* * * * "Chi t'ama con fede
Si leva a Dio, e fa dolce la morte."
[66] Speech of Sir R. Peel at the Tamworth election, pp. 4, 5.—Ollivier, Pall-Mall.
[67] Ibid. pp. 8, 9.
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