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C1I1LDE HAROLD S PILGRIMAGE

CANTO IV.

Stanza I.

rstood in Venice , on the Bridge of Sighs jA palace and a prison on each hand.

The communication between the Ducal palaceand the prisons of Veuice is by a gloomy bridge^or covered gallery, high above the water, anddivided by a stone wall in to a passage and acell. The state dungeons called. „ pozzi, w or■wells, were sunk in the thick walls of the pal*ace; and the prisoner when taken out to die