Are oft-times not unprofitably shown
In the perverseness of a selfish course:
Truth every day exemplified, no less
In the grey cottage by the murmuring stream
Than in[567] fantastic conqueror's roving camp,
Or 'mid[568] the factious senate unappalled
Whoe'er may sink, or rise—to sink again,[569]
As[570] merciless proscription ebbs and flows.
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"There," said the Vicar, pointing as he spake,