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    such a gallant man as your distinguished person . I want but the ann ; I watit but the physical strength ; I have the heart of a lion , though I am a dove in affection and

    fondness . The business is begun and proceeding . My apothecary , the most courteous and garbed Signor Angelo - Gabriele Giuntini , near the Dome , was weighing some sulphur for three most illustrious

    Bolognese noblemen , incommoded l ^ y those cutaneous eruptions , under which their very learned pontifical city has laboured from time immemorial , so that he could not conveniently with all his zeal for letters , and

    friendship for me his particular friend , accommodate me with his four-ounce weight

    and English-built balance . But in order to shew my obsequiousness and panting in the services of our common patron , I enclose herewith many authentic and most important documents , furnished

    Twith which his Excellency the Grand Esquire may venture forth among the foremost in the literary world . My own scales may not be exact , but according to them , the weight , reckoning the sealing-wax in the old letters and the wafer

    in my enclosure , amounts to three ounces and a dra ' ch'in . Aurora is afraid , and indeed 1 myself * begin to participate in het fears , that the battle ^ recounted and detailed in the famous epic of the renowned Torqiiato , may raise suspi-

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    cions in these unquiet times . The book is not yet prohibited , like old Signor Dante AH * ghieri ' s , but as it may incite

    to a martial spirit , the Government ( to which such a report has been made ) looks on it with an evil eye : wherefore , if Aurora should lend it to her

    lover , they might send her to the Stinca , as lending a hand to incendiaries , and him to Volterra , as suspected of Carbonarism . The Abbate

    Metastasio , poet to the Cesarean Majesty , has but little flame and fire in him , and ( a countryman of your ' s declared it ) has buckets and rain-water

    enough to extinguish ten times the quantity . Could not you , my too generous friend , ever active in kind attentions . . one word from your lips . . but I dare not ask or nint . . a certain innate

    modesty , the habits of my life , the duties of my profession . . I would not quote the best book unseasonably . . " Ask , and it shall be given V—I have ever found it so . . Biit

    words are wanting , as they likewise are to express the unextinguishable love and unalterable devotion with which I kiss your honoured hands and those of our exalted patron . «¦

    Deign &c . MR STIVERS TO TME PARROCO SPJNELLA . Parson ! ' , . ' _ '' ' Wm iii v : ^ 4 yqp , in God ' s name ? Master said to me , " Ditf you venture tp hint to

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    260 High and Low Life in Ita y .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/35/