A Sequel to Don Juan — page 46: what you’re looking at

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DON JUAN. +7 XCIl. Humbug has done all this—aye, and much more! It is the general tutor of the age ; It rules society from shore to shore— Flows from the lip—is read in every page— Like gingerbread has gilded titles o’er— | Directs the fool—and even prompts the sage : — But now that Humbug’s very selfis sick At all the flattery heaped on “little Vic.”’ AXCIIT, Our friends must know these truths. Diogenes Laertius says—(but is it fair to quote In our vernacular, th’ unlearned to please. The brightest maxim which he ever wrote ? For though our language can express with ease All slang that ever came from human throat, Tis not so rich in synonyms to tell Those things which in the classics read so well :)— XCIV. Diogenes Laertius says, ‘‘ The root Of learning’s bitter, but the fruit is sweet :’’— It surely is not worth our while to moot The question now, althongh our parents treat The matter otherwise, and overshoot The mark when they declare that school’s the seat Of perfect joy, and that our man’s estate To care and wretchedness is doomed by fate. COMmiclbooks. conn