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DON JU.VX.

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LXXXIV.

And if in tlie mean time her 1msband died,

But licaven forbid tliat swell a thought should

cross

Her brain, though in a dream! (and then she sigh d)fe Never could she survive that common loss;

But -just suppose that moment should betide,

I only say suppose it — inter nos.

(This should be entre nous, fop Julia thoughtIn French,but then the rhyme would go l'or nought.)

LXXXV.

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I only say suppose this supposition:

Juan being then grown up to man’s estateWould fully suit a widow of condition,

Even seven years hence it would not be too lateAnd in the interim (to pursue this vision)

The mischief, after all, could not be great,For lie would learn the rudiments of love,

I mean the seraph way of those above.

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