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1798.

I wish no other herald,
“ No other speaker of my living actions,
“ To keep mine honour from corruption,
" But an honest chronicler

Hen 8. Act 4. Sc. 2,
-Hic nigræ fuecus loliginis, hæc est
• Ærugo mera : quod vitium procul abfore chartis,
“Atque animo prius, ut fi quid promittere de me
“ Poffum aliud vere, promitto."

HORACE, Sat, i. 4. 100.