Canto 1.

SON JVAN.

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XII.

Her favourite science was the mathematical,

Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity,

Ilcr wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all,Her serious sayings darken’d to sublimity;

In short, in all things she was fairly what I callA prodigy — her morning dress was dimity,ller evening silk, or, in the summer, muslin,And other stuffs, with which I won’t stay puzzling.

sin.

She knew the Latin —tliatis, „thc Lord’s prayer , iAnd Greek — the alphabet — I’m nearly sure,She read some Fl ench romances here and there,Although her mode of speaking was not pure;For native Spanish she had no great care,

At least her conversation was obscure;

Her thoughts were theorems, her words a problem,As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ’em-