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BOOK VI.
Perchance you say that gold's the arch-exceller,
And to be rich is sweet?--EURIP. /Ion./, line 641.
* * * 'Tis not to be endured,
To yield our trodden path and turn aside,
Giving our place to knaves.--/Ibid./, line 648
CHAPTER I.
"L'adresse et l'artifice out passe dans mon coeur;
Qu'ou a sous cet habit et d'esprit et de ruse."*--REGNARD.
* Subtility and craft have taken possession of my heart; but under this