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Tell them, though it may be, perhaps, too late⁠—

On Life’s worn confine, jaded, bloated, sated⁠—

To set up vain pretence of being great,

’Tis not so to be good; and, be it stated,

The worthiest kings have ever loved least state:

And tell them⁠—But you won’t, and I have prated

Just now enough; but, by and by, I’ll prattle

Like Roland’s horn in Roncesvalles’ battle.