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MAZEEEA.

„IIc made no wars, and did not gain5,New realms to lose them back again;

„And (save debates in Warsaw ’s diet)

„IJe reign’d in most unseemly quiet;jj’Not that he had no cares to vex,

„He loved the muses and the sex;

„And sometimes these so froward arc,,,Tkey made him wish himself at war;„But soon his wrath being o’er, he took5,Another mistress, or new book:

5, And then he gave prodigious fetes —

„All Warsaw gather’d round his gates3,To gaze upon his splendid court,

„And dames, and chiefs, of princely port3,He was the Polish Solomon,

„So sung his poets, all but one,

„Who, being unpension’d, made a satire,„And boasted that he could not flatter.

„It was a court of jousts and mimes,„Where every courtier tried at rhymes;„Even I for once produced some verses,„And sign’d my odes Despairing Thirsis.