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DON TUAN.

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A fisher, therefore, was he — though of metijLike Petef the Aposftle,’— and he fish’dFor wandering merchant vessels, now and then,And sometimes caught as many as ho wish’d;The cargoes he confiscated, and gainHe sought in the slave-market too, and dish’dFull many a morsel for that Turkish trade,

By which, no doubt, a good deal may be made.

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He was a Greek, and on his isle had built(One of the wild and smaller Cyclades )

A very handsome house from out his guilt,

And there he lived exceedingly at ease;

Heaven knows what cash he got, or blood he spilt,A sad old fellow was he, if you please,

But this 1 know, it was a spacious building,

Full of barbaric carving, paint, and gilding,