No More Learning

Not a veu," she says, . . 'at's a scarf . .
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? And the Judge says
Don't you know you aren't allowed all those buttons)
And she says Those aIn't buttons, them's bobbles
Can't you see there aIn't any button-holes'
And the Judge says Well, anyway, you're not allowed ernune . . Ermme' . . the pel says, "Not ermme, that am't,
. . 'At's latttttzo"
And the Judge says And Just what IS a lattlttzo)
And the gtrl says
? ? It'z a anlmal . . Slgnon, you go and enforce It
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? XXIII
ET ommiormlS," PseIlos, . . omms
. . Intellectus est" God's fire GemISto . . Never WIth thlS relIgIon
. . Wtll you make men of the greeks
Ie But butld wall across Peloponesus Ie And orgamze, and
damn these Eyetahan barbarIans" And Novvy's shtp went down 10 the tempest
Or at least they chucked the books overboard
How c:hssolve Irol In sugar Houtlle blanche, Auto-chentlle, destroy all bacterIa In the kIdney,
Invenoon-d'enotes-plus-ou-molOs-abstratts- en-nombre-egal-aux-choses-a-exphquer
La SClence ne peut pas y conslSter t'ral Obtenuunebrulure"M Cune,orsomeotherSCIentISt ee QUl m'a coute SIX mOIS de guerlSon"
and contInued hIS expenments
Troplsmes' "We belIeve the attractIon IS chemIcal "
WIth the sun In a golden cup
and g010g toward the low fords of ocean
"A\ t-. 'y't-t" ? ,/J ' nJl. t. Ol; 0 1TEP? 07l? oo,l; OE'lTo. l; EUlCo,TE",o,? 7IE )(p1JtF? OV
"o. J. .
t'. . - , ~po, O? CUICEo,7IOLO ' l T ? p o , U o , l ;
xma vada noctlS obscurae
Seekmg doubtless the sex 1 0 bread-moulds
"'lAWS, d. A~s, d. AtOS == ",a. TC? LOS
(CC Denvaoon uncertaIn" The Id,ot
Odysseus furrowed the sand)
ahxantos, allotrephes, eISkatebaIne, down Into, descended, to the end that, beyond ocean, pass through, traverse
107
? VVICTO'> epEp. vO. <;,
1TOT~ fLaTEpa, l<ovpL8? av llI. >. . . oxov
1Tai8&. ,> TE cp[AOV,> E{3a 8dcpvaun ICaTc? a-ICLOv Preclsely, the selv' oscura
And m the mornmg, m the Phrygian head-sack Barefooted, dumpmg sand from their boat 'Ypenomdes'
And the rose grown whlle I slept, And the strmgs shaken With mUSlC,
Caprlped, the loose tWigs under foot, We here on the rull, With the ohves Where a man mlght carry hls oar up, And the boat there m the mlet,
As we had lam there In the autumn
Under the arras, or wall pamted below hke arras, And above With a garden of rose-trees,
Sound commg up from the cross-street,
As we had stood there,
WatchIng road from the WIndow,
Fa Han and I at the wmdow,
And her head bound WIth gold cords
Cloud over mountam, rull-gap, In mIst, lIke a sea-coast.
Leaf over leaf, dawn-branch In the sky And the sea dark, under wmd,
The boat's salls hung loose at the moonng,
Cloud hke a saIl mverted,
And the men dumpIng sand by the sea-wall Ohve trees there on the hIll
where a man mIght carry hls oar up
And my brother De M:ensac
Bet Wlth me for the castle,
And we put It on the toss of a com,
And I, Austors, won the com-toss and kept It,
108
? And he went out to TlerCl, a Jongleur
And on the road for hIs hVIng,
And tWIce he went down to TlercI,
And took off the gIrl there that was Just marned to Bernart.
And went to Auvergne, to the DauphIn, And Tierci came With a posse to Auvergnat, And went back for an army
And came to Auvergne wIth the army
But never got PIerre nor the woman
And he went down past ChaIse Dleu,
And went after It all to Mount Segur,
after the end of all thIngs,
And they hadn't left even the staIr, And SImone was dead by that tune, And they called us the Mamcheans Wotever the hellsarse that IS
And that was when Troy was down, all nght, superbo IlIon
And they were sallIng along
SItting In the stern-sheets,
Under the lee of an Island
And the Wind drIftIng off from the Island . . Tet, tet
what IS It' " saId Anchlses
. . Tethneke," saId the helmsman, . . I thInk they . . Are howlIng because AdonIs dIed vIrgIn "
. . Huh' tet " saId Ancluses,
t. well, they've made a bloody mess of that CIty"
. . Lng Otreus, of Phrygta, . . That kmg IS my father . .
and saw then, as of waves taking form, As the sea, hard, a glItter of crystal,
And the waves nSIng but formed, holdIng theIr form No lIght reachmg through them
109
? XXIV
THUS the book of the mandates
Feb 1422 We desire that you our factors give to Zohanne of
Rlmml our servant, SIX hre marchesml,
for the three prlZes he has won racmg our barbarlscI, at the rate we have agreed on The races he has won are the Modena, the San Petronio at Bologna
and the last race at San Zorzo
(Signed) ParlSma Marchesa
pay them for bmdmg
un hbro franxese che SI cluama TrlStano
CarlsSlml nostn
Zohanne da Rlmml
has won the paho at MIlan With our horse and wntes that
he IS now on the hotel, and wants money
Send what you thmk he needs,
but when you get hIm back m Ferrara find out
what he has done with the first lot, I thInk over 2. 5 ducats But send the other cash qUIckly, as I don't want hIm there on the hotel
perfumes, parrot seed, combs, two great and two small ones from Veruce, for madama la man. . esana
2. 0 ducats to
give to a friend of ours who paId a bIll for us on thIS trIp to Romagna
verde colore predeletto, 25 ducats zlparello sIlver embroidered for Ugo fiolo del Signore
(2. 7 nov 1427)
PROCURATIO NOMINE PATRIS, Leonello Este
IIO
? (arrangIng dot for Margarita hIS sIster, to Roberto Malatesta of RUlllm)
natae praehbatl margantae
III D NIcolaI Marchloms Esten et Sponsae The tower of Gualdo
WIth plenary JurISdIctIOn In ClvIls, and In crurunal to fine and have scourged all delInquents
as In the rest of theIr lands,
? ? whIch thIngs
thIs tower, estate at Gualdo had the Illustnous NIcolaus MarqUls of Este receIved from the sald Don Carlo (Malatesta)
for dower
Illustrae DomInae PansInae Marxesana"
under my hand D Mlchaeh de Magnabucls Not pub Ferr D N lcolaeque GUlducCloh de Anm100
Seqult bonorum descrIptIo
And he In hIS young youth, 10 the wake of Odysseus
To Cithera (a d 1413) . . dove fu Elena rapta da ParlS" Dmners In orange groves, prows attended of dolphms, VestIge of Rome at Pola, faIr w10d as far as Naxos
Ora vela. , ora a reml, smo ad ora dl vespero
Or Wlth the Sall tIght hauled, by the crook'd land's arm Zefaloma
And at Corfu, greek smgers, by Rhodos
Of the WlDdrnxlls, and to Paphos,
Donkey boys, dust, deserts, Jerusalem, back. sheesh
And an endless fuss over passports,
One groat for the Jordan, whether you go there or not,
The school where the madonna m gtrlhood
Went to learn letters, and PIlate's house closed to the publu ? . 2 soldl for OlIvet (to the Saracens)
And no mdulgence at Judas's tree, and
III
? ( t Here ChrlSt put hls thumb on a rock tt SaylOg hlc est medlUm mundl "
(That, I assure you, happened
Ego, scrlptor cantdenae )
For worse) for better> but happened
After whlch, the greek glrlS at Corfu, and the
Ladles, Venetian, and they all sang In the evening Benche ruuno cantasse, although none of them could, Witness Luchmo del Campo
Plus one turlosh Juggler, and they had a bath
When they got out of Jerusalem
And for cargo one leopard of Cyprus
And falcons, and small birds of Cyprus,
Sparrow hawks, and grayhounds from Turkey
To breed m Ferrara among thm-Iegged Ferrarese,
Owls, hawks, nshmg tackle
Was beheaded Aldovrandmo (142. 5, vent"uno MaggiO) Who was cause of thlS evd. and after
The Marchese asked was Ugo beheaded And the Captam t t Signor S1" and 11 Marchese began crymg
t t Fa me hora taghar la testa
. . dap01 COS! presto hal decapltato t1 mlO Ugo . .
Rodendo con dent! una bachetta che havea 10 mam
And passed that rught weepmg, and calhng Ugo, hiS son Affable, bullnecked, that brought seduction 10 place of Rape mto government, ter paCtS Itallae auctor,
With the boys pullmg the tow-ropes on the nver
Tre cento bastard! (or bombard! nred off at h1S funeral)
And the next year a standard from Veruce (Where they'd called off a horse race)
And the baton from the Florentme baxly
tt Of Fatr aspect, gentle 10 manner . ,
Forty years old at the ttme,
tt And they kIlled a Judge's Wife among other,
IIZ
? That was a Judge of the court and noble, And called Madonna Laodamla delh Romel, Beheaded 10 the pa della Justlcla,
And 10 Modena, a madonna Agnesma
Who had p01soned her husband,
"All women known as adulterous,
. . That hIS should not suffer alone"
Then the wnt ran no further And 1 0 '3 I marned Monna RIcarda
CHARLES scavozr falsans et advenzr a haute noblesse du Lmage et Hostel e faIctz hautex vaillance affectIon notre dIct Cousm
pUISsance, auctorIte Royal u et ses hors yssus et a leur IOISe aVOIr doresenavant
A TOUSIUOURS EN LEURS ARMES ESCARTELURE troIS fleurs LIz d'or en champs a'asur dentelle
10lssent et usent
Mu CCCC trente et ung, conseU
aChmon, Ie Roy, l'Esne de la Trzmouzll, Vendolse, Jehan Rabateau
And 10 '32 came the Marchese Saluzzo
To VlSlt them, hIS son 10 law and rus daughter,
And to see Hercules hIs grandson, pIccolo e PUtlnO And 10 '. 41 Polenta went up to VenIce
Agamst NIccolo's cautIon
And was swallowed up 10 that CIty
E fu sepulto nudo, Nlccolo,
WIthout decoratIOn, as ordered 1 0 testament,
Ter paClS Itahae
And 1? you want to know what became of hIS statue, I had a nfle class 10 Bondeno
And the prIest sent a boy to the hardware
And he brought back the naus 1. 0 a wrapp1Og,
II}
? And It was the leaf of a c:L. ary
And he got the rest from the hardware
(CaSSln1, hbralO, speakmg) And on the first leaf of the wrappmg
Was how 10 Napoleon's time
Came down a load of brass fittmgs from Modena
Vla del Po, all went by the rIver,
To Placenza for cannon, bells, door-knobs
And the statues of the Marchese Nlccolo and of Borso That were 10 the Piazza on columns
And the Commendatore has made It a monograph Without saymg I told hIm and sent hIm
The name of the prIest
After hun and hlS day
Were the cake-eaters, the consumers of Icmg, That read all day per duetto
And left the rught work to the servants, Ferrara, paradlSo del sarti, c. feste stomagose"
" Is It hkely DlVlne Apollo,
That I should have stolen your cattle' A cluld of my age, a mere mfant,
And besides, I have been here all night 10 my crib" ? ? Albert made me, Tura patnted my wall,
And JulIa the Countess sold to a tannery
? xxv
THE BOOK OF THE COUNCIL MAJOR 1255 be It enacted
That they mustn't shoot crap In the hall
of the councIl, nor In the small court under pam of 2 0 danan, be It enacted
u66 no sqUIre of Vemce to throw dlce
anywhere In the palace or
m the loggxa of the Rtalto under pam of ten sold1 or half that for kIds, and If they wont pay
they are to be chucked In the water be It enacted
In hbro pactorum
To the thIngs everlastIng
memory both for lIve men and for the future et quod pubhce lllnotescat
m the saId date, dicto mdlessxmo
of the dlustnous lord, Lord John Soranzo
by god's grace doge of Venxce In the Cuna
of the Palace of the Doges,
neath the portIco next the house of the dwellIng of the Castaldlo and of the heralds of the Lord Doge hemg beneath same a penthouse or cages
or room txmbered (trabesIhs) lIke a cellar
one LIon male and one female szmul commorantes whIch beasts to the Lord Doge were transmItted small by that serene Lord KIng Fredenc of Slctly, the
saId hon knew carnally and In nature the LIoness aforesaid and Impregnated In that manner that arumals leap on one another to know and Impregnate
on the faith of several ocular WItnesses
Wluch honess bore pregnant for about three months (as 1$ Said by those who saw her assaulted)
115
? and In the sud mlllesslmo and month on a sunday
nth of the month of September about sunnse on
St Mark's day early but with the hght already apparent the said honess as IS the nature of ammals
whelped per naturam three hon cubs VIVOS et pIlosos
hvmg and hairy which born at once began Me and motlOn and to go gynng about their mother throughout the aforesaid room as saw the aforesaid Lord Doge and as It were all the Venetians and other folk who were In
Venice that day that concurred all for this as It were nuraculous sight And one of the animals 15 a male
and the other two female
I John Marcheslnl Ducal notary of the Venetians as eyewItness saw the
natlVlty of these ammals thus by mandate of the said Doge wrote thiS
and put It In file
Also a note from Pontius PIlate dated the co year 33 "
Two columns (a d I313) fOI the church of St Nicholas of the palace n lire gross
To the procurators of St Marc for entrance to the
palace, for gIldmg the Images and the hon over the door
to be paid
Be It enacted
to Donna Sorantla Soranzo that she come for the feast of Ascension by night In a covered boat and alight at the rlpa del Palazzo, and when first sees the ChrlStblood go at once up mto the Palace and may stay In the Palace VIII days to VISit the Doge her father not In that txme leaVIng the palace, nor descending the palace stair and when she descends It that she return by nIght the boat In the hke manner
II6
? hemg covered To be revoked at the councll's pleasure accepted by Sof the council
I33S 3 hre 15 groats to stone for maklng a hon 1340 CounCIl of the lords noble, Marc Enzlo NIC Speranzo, Tomasso Gradonlco
that the hall be new bmlt over the room of the rught watch
and over the columns toward the canal where the walk IS
because of the stmk of the dungeons 1344 1409 Slnce the most serene Doge can scarce stand uprIght I n hIS bedroom
vadit pars, two gross lIre stone staIr, 1415, for pulchrItude of the palace
~54 da parte
de non ~3
4 non SIncere
WInch IS to say they bmlt out over the arches and the palace hangs there In the dawn, the nust, In that dImness,
or as one rows In from past the muraZZl
the barge slow after moon-rIse
and the VOIce soundmg under the sall
MISt gone
And SulplCla
green shoot now, and the wood
wlute under new cortex
c. as the sculptor sees the form In the aIr
before he sets hand to mallet, to and as he sees the ln, and the through,
the four Sides
to not the one face to the paInter As IVOry uncorrupted
. . Pone metum Cennthe'~ Il7
? Lay there, the long soft gr1SS,
and the flute hy there by her thlgh,
SulplcIa, the fauns, tWIg-strong,
gathered about her,
The fluId, over the grass Zephyrus, paSSIng through her,
e< deus nee laedIt amantes "
ffic mthl dIes sanctus,
And from the stone pIts, the heavy VOIces, Heavy sound
. . Sero, sero
. . NothIng we made, we set nothmg 10 order,
. . NeIther house nor the earvmg,
. . And what we thought had been thought for too long, . . Our opmlOn not opmlon 10 eVIl
. . But opmlOn borne for too long
. . We have gathered a SIeve full of water"
And from the comb of reeds, came notes and the chorus Mov1Og, the young fauns ? Pone metum,
Metum, nec deus laedlt
And as after the form, the shadow,
Noble forms, lack10g hfe, that boIge, that valley the dead words keepmg form,
and the cry CIVIS Romanus
The clear aIr, dark, dark,
The dead concepts, never the solId, the blood nte, The varuty of Ferrara,
Clearer than shades, I n the htll road Sprmgmg I n cleft of the rock Phaethusa There as she came among them,
Wme 10 the smoke-famt throat,
FIre gleam under smoke of the mounta1O, Even there by meadows of Phiegethon
lIS
? And agaInst thlS the flute pone metum
Fadmg, that they carned theIr guts before them, And thought then, the deathless,
Form, forms and renewal, gods held In the aIr, Forms seen, and then clearness,
Bnght vOld, Without Image, Naplshtlm,
CastIng hIS gods back Into the IIOtS
. . as the sculptor sees the form m the air . . as glass seen under water,
. . Kmg Otreus, my father
and saw the waves takmg form as crvstal, notes as facets of aIr,
and the mmd there, before them, mOVIng, so that notes needed not move
SIde toward the pIazza, the worst SIde of the room that no one has been Wllhng to tackle,
and do It as cheap or much cheaper
(sIgned) Tlclan, 3I May I5I3
It bemg convenIent that there be an end to
the paIntIng of TItIan, fourth frame from the door on the nght of the hall of the greater councu, begun
by maestro TYClano da Cadore SInce ItS beIng thus unfinIshed holds up the decoraoon of saId hall on
the SIde that everyone sees We
move that by authonty of thIS Counctl maestro Tycmno aforesaId be constraIned to :6. nlSb saId canvas,
and If he have not, to lose the expectancy of the brokerage on the Fondamenta delh Thodeschl
and moreover to restore all payments reed on account of
Said canvas I I Aug 1522. Ser Leonardus Emo, Sapiens ConsuIJ
Ser Phuxppus Capello, Sapiens Terrae FIrmae
II,9
? In 15I 3 on the last day of May was conceded to
Tlclan of Cadore pamter a succeSSIon to a brokerage
on the Fondamenta del Thodeschl, the first to be vacant In 1516 on the 5th of december was declared that Wlthout further waltmg a vacancy he shd enter that whIch had been held by the pamter Zuan Bellm on condltlon that he pamt the pIcture of the land battle
m the Hall of our Greater Councd on the side toward
the pIazza over the Canal Grande, the whIch Tlclan after the denuse of Zuan Bellm entered mto posseSSIon of the saId Sensarla and has for about twenty years profited by It, namely to about 1 0 0 ducats a year not mcludmg the
18 to 20 ducats taxes yearly remItted hIm It bemg fittlng that as he has not worked he should not have the said profits WHEREFORE
be It moved that the saId TIClan de Cadore, plctor, be by authorIty of thIs Councd
obhged and constramed to restore to our government all the moneys that he has had from the agency durmg the tIme he has not worked on the pamtmg I n the saId
hall as 1S reasonable
ayes 102. , noes 38, 37 undecIded
reguter of the senate
terra 1537, carta 136
12. 0
? XXVI
AD
I came here In my young youth
and lay there under the crococble By the column, lookmg East on the FrIday,
And I saId Tomorrow I Wlll he on the South SIde And the day after, south west
And at mght they sang In the gondolas
And m the barche WIth lanthorns,
The prows rose sliver on sliver
takmg hght In the darkness . . Relaxetur , . .
lIth December 1461 that Pastl be let out WIth a caveat
cc caveat Ire ad Turchum, that he stay out of ConstantInople
. . If he hold dear our government's pleasure . . The book WIll be retamed by the councll
(the book beIng ValturIo's . . Re Mlhtarl")
To NIcolo Segundmo, the next year, Ilth October co Leave no omnem as they say volve lapldem . . Stone unturned that he, PIo,
te GIve peace to the Malatesta
? ? FaIthful sons (we are) of the church (for two pages)
. . And see all the cardmals and the nephew . . And m any case get the Job done
? ? Our galleys were stnctly neutral . . And sent there for neutralIty
te SeeBorsoIn Ferrara. .
121
? To Bernard Justmlan, 28th of October
. . Segunchno IS to come back wIth the news U Two or three days after you get thIs"
Senato Secreta, 28th of October,
Came Messlre Hambal from Cesena
. . Cd they hOlSt the flag of St Mark
. . And have Fortmbras and our army;l "
? ? They cd not but on the qUiet, secretIsslme, . . Twogrand SIC Hemayhave
C'Two thousand ducats, himself to hire the men
c. From our army"
8 barrels wme, to Henry of Inghllterra Tm, serges, amber to go by us to the Levant, Corfu, and above Corfu
And luther came Selva, doge,
that first moslac'd San Marco,
And hlS Wlfe that would touch food but Wlth forks, Sed aurelS furcullS, that IS
WIth small golden prongs Brmgmg In, thus, the Vice of luxurla,
And to greet the doge Lorenzo Tlepolo, Barbers, heads covered With beads, Furriers, masters m rough,
Master pe1ters for nne work,
And the masters for lambskin
With sIlver cups and theIr wme flasks And blacksnuths Wlth the gonfaron
et leurs noles charpes de vm, The masters of wool cloth
Glass makers In scarlet Carrymg fabrefactlons of glass,
I22
? 25th Apnl the Joust1Og, The Lord Nicolo Este,
Ugacclon del Contrar1OI,
The Lord Francesco Gonzaga, and first The goldsnuths and Jewelers' company Wearxng pellande of scarlet,
the horses In cendato-
And It cost three ducats to rent any horse For three hundred and fifty horses, In pIazza, And the prIze was a collar With Jewels
And these folk came on horses to the pIazza In the last fight fourteen on a sIde,
And the prIze went to a mgger from Mantua That came WIth Mesme Gonzaga
And that year ('38) they came here Jan 2 The MarqUIS of Ferrara
mamly to see the greek Emperor,
To take hIm down the canal to hIS house,
And With the Emperor came the archbIshops
The ArchbIshop of Morea Lower
And the ArchbIshop of SardIs
And the BIshops of Lacedremon and of Mltylene,
Of Rhodos, of Modon Brandos,
And the ArchbIshops of Athens, Cormth, and of Treblzond, The chIef secretary and the stonobfex
And came COSImO MedIcI t t almost as a VenetIan to Vemce ,.
(That would be four days later)
And on the 2. 5th, Lord Slgxsmundo da Rururu
For government busmess
And then returned to the camp
And 10 February they all packed off
To Ferrara to decIde on the holy ghost
And as to the whIch begat the what In the TrInIty - GemlSto and the Stonohfex.
? And you would have bust ,our bum laughmg To see the hats and beards of those greeks
And the guild spmt was declInmg
T e ? 11 Dux, tuosque successores
Aureo anulo, to wed the sea as a wIfe, for beatmg the Emperor Manuel, eleven hundred and seventy SI"'I:
II75 a d first bridge In Rialto
. . You may seal your acts wlth lead, Slgnor Ziam "
The Jewelers company had thetr furs lmed wIth scarlet And s:tl. k cloth for the horses,
A s:tl. k cloth called cendato
That they mIl use for the shawls,
And at the tlme of that war agamst Hungary Uncle Carlo Malatesta, three wounds
lhhsta, sword and a lance wound,
And to our general Pandolfo, three legates, WIth Silk and with SlIver,
And with velvet, Wine and confections, to keep him-. Per anlffiarla - In mood to go on with the fightmg
~. That are In San Samuele (young ladles) are all to go to Rlalto
And to wear yellow kerchIef, as are also
TheIr matrons (ruffiane) "
~. Ambassador, for hIs great wisdom and money,
? ? That had been here as an eXile, Coslmo
<<Pater"
? ?
Lord LUlgl Gonzaga, to be gIven Casa Glustmlan . .
? ? Bishops of Lampascus and Cyprus c. And other fifty lords bishops
that are the church of the onent . . 124
? March 8, . . That Slgtsmundo left Mantua III contented
And they are dead and have left a few Pictures
. . Alblzl have sacked the MediC! bank"
. . Venetians may stand, come, depart With thelt families Free by land, free by sea
In their galleys,
Ships, boats, and WIth merchandise
2 %on what's actually sold No tax above that Year 6962 of the world
l8th April, m Constantinople"
Wmd on the lagoon, the south wmd breakmg roses
Illmo ac exmo (eccellent15slmo) prmceps et dno Lord, my lord m particular, Sforza
In reply to lst ltr of yr ld-hp
re mae of horses, there are some for sale here
I said that I hdn't then seen 'em all thoroughly Now I may say that I have, and thmk
There are eleven good horses and almost that number Of hacks that mIght be used m necessJty,
To be had at a reasonable price
It 15 true that there are X or XI big horses
from 80 to IIO ducats
That seem to me dearer at the price
Than those for 80 ducats and under
And I thmk that If yr IdBP wd send from
lOOO ducats to one thousand 500 It cd be spent On stuff that wd SUlt yr Ldp qUite well
Please Y L t o answer qUlckly
As I want to take myself out 'Of here,
And If you want me to buy them
Send the cash by Mr Pltro the farrIer And have hun tell me by mouth or letter
us
? What yr IdP wants me to buy
Even from 80 ducats up there are certam good horses I have nothIng else to say to your LordshIp
Save my salutatIons
GIven Bologna, 14th of August 1453
Servant of yr Illustnous LordshIp PISANELLUS
1462, 12th December . . and Vittor Capello Brought also the head of St George the Martyr From the Island of Siesma
ThIS head was covered WIth SlIver and
Taken to San GIOrgxo MaggIore
To the CardInal Gonzaga of Mantua, ultImo febbralO 1548 . . 26th of feb was kIlled m thIS CIty
Lorenzo de MedIclS Yr Illu? Ld-hp wIll understand
from the enc account how the affaIr IS saId to have
gone off They say those who kIlled hIm have certamly got away In a post boat wIth 6 oars But they don't know whIch way they have gone, and as a guard may have been set In certam places and passes, It wd
be convenIent If yr IllS Lds. hp wd wnte at once
to your ambassador here, sayIng among other thIngs
that the two men who kIlled Lorenzmo have passed through the CIty of Mantua and that no one knows whlch
way they have gone PublIshIng thIS InformatIon
from yr Ldshp wIll perhaps help them to get free Although we thmk they are already In Florence, but
In any case thIS measure can do no harm So that
yr Ldshp wd benefit by domg It qUIckly and even to have others send the same news
May Our Lord protect yr Ilis and most Revnd person WIth the Increase of state you deSIre
Veruce, last of Feb 1548
I kISS the hands of yr III LdshP Don In Hnr de MendQ'Sa
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? To the MarqUIS of Mantova, Fran? Gonzaga
lllustrIous my Lord, durlOg the past few days
An unknown man was brought to me by some others
To see a Jerusalem I have made, and as soon as he
saw It he lOslSted that I sell It hIm, sayIng It
gave hIm the gtst content and satIsfactD
Fmally the de'll was made and he took It away,
WIthOUt payIng and hasn't smce then appeared
I went to tell the people who had brought hIm, one
of whom IS a pnest Wlth a beard that wears a
grey berettlOo whom I have often seen WIth you In
the hall of the gtr councIl and I asked hun the fellow's name, and It IS a Messrre Lorenzo, the
pamter to your LordshIp, from whIch I have easily understood what he was up to, and on that account
I am wntmg you, to furmsh you my name and the work's In the first place IllustrIOUS m lord, I am
that pamter to the Selgnory, commissioned to palOt the gt hall where Yr Lordship deigns to mount
on the scaffold to see our work, the history of Ancona, and my name IS Victor Carpano
As to the Jerusalem I dare say there IS not another
10 our tIme as good and completely perfect, or as
large It 15 25 ft long by 5 1/2, and I know Zuane Zambertl has often spoken of It to yr SublImity, I
know certalOly that thiS palOter of yours has carned off a piece, not the whole of It I can send you
a small sketch 10 aquarelle on a roll, or have It
seen by good Judges and leave the price to your Lordship
XV Aug I5II, VenetlJs
I have sent a copy of tlus letter by another way to be sure you get one or the other
The humble svt of yr Subhmlty
Victor Carpatmo
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plctore
? To the supreme p1g, the archb1shop of Salzburg Lastlng :filth and perdition
Smce your exalted pustulence 1S too Stlngy
To gIve me a decent mcome
And has already assured me that here I have nothmg to hope And had better seek fortune elsewhere,
And smce thereafter you have
Three tlmes lffipeded my father and self mtendmg departure I ask. you for the fourth tlffie
To behave With more decency, and th1s tlffie Permlt my departure
Wolfgang Amadeus, august 1777
(mter lzneas)
co As 15 the sonata, so 15 httle M1Ss Cannablch "
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? XXVII
FORMANDO dl mSlO nuova persona
One man IS dead, and another has rotted his end off Et quant au trolsleme
II est tombe dans Ie De sa femme, on ne Ie reverra
Pas, om fugol owtbaer
. . Observed that the pamt was
Three quarters of an Inch thick and concluded,
As they were bemg rammed through, the age of that
Crwser" . . Referred to no longer as
The goddamned Porta-goose, but as
England's oldest ally" . . At rests m calm zone
If posSIble, the men are to be fed and relaxed,
The officers on the contrary "
Ten mullon germs m Ius face,
. . That IS part of the rISk and happens
. . About twice a year In tubercular research, Dr Spahlmger "
? ? J'al obtenu " SaId M Curle, or some other SCientISt . . A burn that cost me SIX months m curmg,"
And contmued hIS experIments
England off there m black darkness,
Russia off there m black darkness,
The last crumbs of CIvIlIzatIOn
And they elected a PrInce des Penseurs Because there were so damn many prmces, And they elected a Monsieur Bmset
Who held that man IS descended from frogs, And there was a cracked conCIerge that they Nearly got mto the Deputles,
To protest agamst the earthquake 10 Messma
The Bucentoro sang It m that year, 12. 9
? 1908, 1909, 1910, and there was
An old washerwoman beatmg her washboard, That would be 192. 0, wIth a cracked VOIce, SIngmg tt Strettl' " and that was the last Tdl dus year, ':1. 7, Hotel AnglOh, In MIlan, WIth an aIr Clara d'Ellebeuse,
WIth theIr hkehke and foxhke eyes,
WIth an aIr tt Benette Joue la Valse des Elfes " In the salotto of that drummer's hotel,
Two young ladles WIth theIr aIr de prOVInce
t t No, we are Croat merchants, commerClantl, tt There IS nothmg strange In OUi hIstory" . tNo, not to sell, but to buy"
And there was that mUSIC publIsher,
The fellow that brought back the shrunk Indlan head Boned, oded, from BolIVIa, saId
tt Yes, I went out there Couldn't make out the trade, Long after we'd melt Up the plates,
Get an order, 2. 00 copIes, Peru,
Or some statIon In Chde"
Took out Floradora In sheets,
And brought back a led-headed mummy
WIth an aIr Clara d'Ellebeuse, smgmg t t Strettl "
Sed et Unlversus quoque ecciesle populus, All rushed out and buIlt the duomo, Went as one man Without leaders
And the perfect measure took form,
t t Ghelmo Clptadm" says the stone, t t the author, to And Nlcolao was the carver"
Whatever the meanIng may be
And they wrote for year aftel year
RefinIng the crIterIOn,
Or they rose as the tops subSIded,
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? BrumaU"e, Fructldor, Petrograd And Tovansch lay 10 the w10d
And the sun layover the w1Od, And three forms became 10 the aU" And hovered about rum,
so that he sald Tlus machmery IS very anCient,
surely we have heard thlS before And the waves hke a forest
Where the wmd IS weightless 10 the leaves But mov1Og,
so that the sound runs upon sound Xantes, born of Venus and Wlne
Carved stone upon stone
But 1 0 sleep, 1 0 the wak10g dream, Petal'd the alr,
tWIg where but wmd-stleak had been, Movmg bough Wlthout root,
by Hellos So that the Xantes bent over tovarisch
And these are the labours of tovamch,
That tovarisch lay 10 the earth,
And rose, and wrecked the house of the tyrants, And that tovarlSch then lay 10 the earth
And the Xantes bent over tovarlSch
These are the labours of tovansch,
That tovamch wrecked the house of the tyrants, And rose, and talked folly on folly,
And walked forth and lay 10 the earth
And the Xarltes bent over tovarlSch
And that tovarlSch cursed and blessed WIthout aIm, These are the labours of tovarlSch,
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? Say109
"Me Cadmus sowed m the earth
And wlth the thlrtleth autumn I return to the earth that made me
Let the nve last bUlld the wall,
rnelther buud nor reap
That he came wlth the gold shlps, Cadmus, That he fought WIth the wlsdom,
Cadmus, of the gdded prows N othtng I buud And I reap
Nothtng, WIth the thlrtleth autumn
I sleep, I sleep not, I rot
And I budd no wall
Where was the wall of Ebhs At Ventadour, there now are the bees,
And 10 that court, WIld grass for thelr pleasure That they carry back to the creVlce
Where loose stone hangs upon stone
1 saIled never WIth Cadmus,
hfted never stone above stone"
"Baked and eaten tovansch'
. . Baked and eaten, tovansch, my boy,
~. That IS your story And up agam,
? ? Up and at 'em Lald never stone upon stone"
? ? The aIr burst mto leaf"
? ? Hung there flowered acanthus,
. . t Can you tell the down from the up';I "
132.
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AD God the Father Eternal (BoJa d'un DIO') Havmg made all thtngs he cd
thmk of, felt yet
That somethIng was lackIng, and thought Still more, and reflected that
The Romagnolo was lackmg, and Stamped WIth h1S foot In the mud and Up comes the Romagnolo
. . Gard, yeh bloudy 'angman' It's me" Aso Iqua me All ESlmo Dottor Aldo WallUSchnIg Who WIth the force of hIs Intellect
WIth art and asSIduous care
Has snatched from death by a most peruous operatIOn The claSSIcal Caesarean cut
MarottI, VrrgtnIa, In SenOl of San GIOrgIO
At the same tIme saVIng her son
May there move to hIs laud the applause of all men And the gratItude of the famuy
S GlOrgIO, 2. 3d May AD 1925
Item There are people that can swtmme 10 the sea Havens and rIvers naked
HaVIng bowes and shafts,
CovetIng to draw Olgh yr sruppe wluch If they :find not Well watched and warded they WIl assault
DeSIrous of the bodIes of men whIch they covet for meate, If you res1St them
They dIve and wll flee
And Mr Lourpee sat on the floor of the penSIon dmmg-room. Or perhaps It was In the alcove
And about hun lay a great mass of pasteIls,
That 1S, stubbs and broken pends of pastell,
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? In pale mdetermmate colours
And he admIred the Sage of Concord
c. Too broad ever to make up hls mmd . .
And the mmd of Lourpee at :fifty
DIrected hun mto a room WIth a certam vagueness As If he wd
neIther come In nor stay out
As If he wd
go nexther to the left nor the rIght
And IDS pamtmg reflected thIS habIt
And Mrs Kreffie's mInd was made up,
Perhaps by the pressure of Circumstance,
She descnbed her splendId apartment
In Pam and left WIthout paymg her bxIl
And In fact she wrote later from Sevula
And requested a shawl, and receIved It
From the Senora at 300 pesetas cost to the latter
(Also Without remIttIng) whIch
May have explaIned the laSSItude of her daughter, And the best paId dramatic CtltiC
Arrived from Manhattan
And was lodged In a bordello (promptly)
Havmg trusted . . hiS people . .
Who trusted a Dutch correspondent,
And when they had been devoured by fleas
(CritIC and famxly)
They endeavoured to break the dutchman's month's contract, And the ladles from West VirgInIa
Preserved the natal aroma,
And In the raxIway feedIng-room m Chlasso She sat as If Waiting for the tram for Topeka - That was the year of the strIkes-
When we came up toward Chlasso
. 8y the last on the narrow-gauge,
Then by tramway from Como 134
? LeavIng the lady wno loved bullfights
WIth her etght trunks and her captured hIdalgo,
And a dutchman was there who was gOIng
To take the boat at Trieste,
Sure, he was gOIng to take It,
Would he go round by VIenna' He would not
Absence of trams wdnt stop hIm
So we left htm at last In Chlasso
Along Wlth the old woman from Kansas,
Sohd Kansas, her daughter had marned that SWISS
Who kept the buffet m Chlasso
DId It shake her' It dtd not shake her
She sat there In the waltmg room, sohd Kansas,
Sttff as a CIgar-store mruan from the Bowery
Such as one saw In cc the nmettes ",
FIrst sod of bleedIng Kansas
That had produced thIS hgneous solIdness,
If thou wtlt go to Cruasso w t find that Indestructable female As If walttng for the tram to Topeka
In the buffet of that statton on the bench that
Follows the wall, to the rIght slde as you enter
And Clara Leonora wd come puffing so that one
Cd hear her when she reached the foot of the staIrs,
Squared, chunky, wIth her crooked steel spectacles
And her splutter and hel face full of teeth
And old Rennert wd SIgh heavtly
And look over the top of hIs lenses and
She wd arnve after due mterval WIth a pInwheel
Concernmg Grtllparzer or - pratzer
Or whatever follow the Grill-, and uGran Maestro
Mr LlSzt had come to the home of her parents
And taken her on IDS prevalent knee and
She held that a sonnet was a sonnet
And ought never be destroyed,
And had taken a number of courses
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? And contInued With hope of degrees and Ended I n a Baptlst learnery
Somewhere near the RIO Grande
And they wanted more from theIr women, Wanted 'em Jacked up a lIttle
And sent over for teachers (Ceylon)
So LOlca went out and dIed there
After her tIme In the post-Ibsen movement
And one day In SmIth's room
Or may be It was that 1908 medICO's
Put the gob In the file-place
Ole Byers and Felgenbaum and Joe Bromley, Joe hlttm' the gob at 25 feet
Every time, pIng on the metal
(Az ole man Comley wd say Boys! Never cherr terbakker! Hrwwkke tth! Never cherr terbakker! ,
. . M. tsslonarles," saId Joe, << I was out back of Jaffa, I dressed In the costume, used to lIke the cafes,
All of us settIn' there on the ground,
Pokes hIS head In the doorway << Iz there any," He says, . . Gar'
Damn
Man here
10et kan speak ENGLISH;. "
Nobody saId anythIng fer a wh. t1e And then I saId << Hu el' you;'''
<< I'm er ffilsshernary I am"
He sez, "chucked off a naval boat In ShanghaI
I worked at It three months, nothm' to lIve on . . Beat hlS way overland
I never saw the twenty I lent hIm . .
Great moral secret serVIce, plan, Tnbune IS told hnut number to thIrty thousand,
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? only lughest type will be mcluded,
propaganda wlthm ranks of the veterans,
to keep wlthm bounds when they come mto
contact WIth personal hberty With the french authontles ? that mcludes the Pam polIce
Strengthen franco-amencan anuty
NARCOTIC CHARGE Frank Robert Inquols gave hIS home Oklahoma City Expelled July 24 th
? ? Je SUIS
(Across the bare planks of a dm1Ogroom 10 the Pyrenees)
plus fort que
(No contradIctIOn) . . Je sws
plus fort que Ie
(No contradIctIOn) CC J'aurals
aboh
Ie Boud-hah' . .
ChrISt'
Ie pOlds' . . (Suence, somewhat unconv1Oced)
And m hiS waste house, detritus,
As It were the cast buttons of splendours,
The harbour of MartInIque, drawn every house, and m detail Green shutters on half the houses,
Half the thmg stIll unpamted
"I'm fan tene KOH- lon-
voce tznnula
. . Ce sont les Vleux Marsoulns' . .
He made It, feltz Marcebrus, the words and the mUSIC,
. . sont
1-ale"
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? Uruform out for Peace Day
And that he about the TIbetan temple
(happens by the way to be true,
they do carry you up on theIr shoulders) but
Bad for hIs medIcal practIce
cc Retreat)" saId Dr Wymans, . . It was marrvelous Galhpoh
Secret Turks knew nothmg about It
Uh' Helped me to get my wounded aboard"
And that man sweat blood to put thiough that raIlway, And what he ever got out of It)
And one day he drove down to the whorehouse
Cause all the farmers had consented
and granted the tight of way,
But the pornoboskos wdn't have It at any pnce And saId he'd shoot the surveyors,
But he dxdn't shoot ole pop In the buckboard,
He giV rum the nght of way
And they thought they had hxm flummox'd, Nobody'd sell any raus,
Till he went up to the north of New York state And found some there on the ground
And he had 'em pned loose and shIpped 'em
And had 'em laId here through the forest
ThIng 1S to find somethmg sImple
As for example Pa Stadtvolk,
Hooks to hang gutters on roofs,
A spIke and half-CIrcle, patented 'em and then made 'em, Worth a good muhon, not a book In the place,
Got a horse about twenty years aftel, seen hxm Of a Saturday afternoon
When theY'd taken down an old fence, Ole Pa out there knockxn the naIls out
(To save 'em) I hear he smoked good CIgars I38
? And when the Pnnce Oltrepasslmo dIed, saccone, That follow the coffins,
He lay there on the floor of the chapel
On a great pIece of patterned brocade
And the walls sohd gold about hIm
And there was a hole In one of hlS socks And the place open that day to the publIc, KIds runrung In from the street
And a cat sat there hckmg hImself
And then stepped over the PnncIpe, Dlscobolus upstaIrs and the maIn door
Not opened smce '70
When the Pope shut hxmself mto the VatIcan And they had scales on the table
To weIgh out the food on fast days,
And he lay there WIth hIS hood back
And the hole m one of hIS socks
? ? Buk' " saId the Second Baronet, . . eh
? ? Thass a funny lookm' buk" saId the Baronet Lookmg at Bayle, foho, 4 vols m gUt leather, . . Ah . . Wu Wu wotyougom'ehtodoWIthah
. . ah read-lt' "
SIC loqUItur eques
And lest It pass WIth the day's news Thrown out WIth the daIly paper, NeIther official pet
Nor Levme WIth the lucky button Went on mto darkness,
Saw naught above but close dark,
WeIght of Ice on the fuselage
Borne Into the tempest, black cloud wrappmg theIr wmgs, The rught hollow beneath them
And fell WIth dawn mto ocean
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? But for the nIght saw neIther sky nor ocean
And found shIp why~ how) by the Azores
And she was a bathxng beauty, MISS Arkansas or Texas And the man (of course) quasI anonymous
NeIther a placard for non-smokers or non-alcohol
Nor for the code of PeorIa,
Or one-eyed HmchclIffe and ElSIe
Blackeyed bItch that marrIed dear DenOls,
That flew out mto nothmgness
And her father was the son of one too
That got the annulment
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? XXIX
PEARL, great sphere, and hollow,
Mist over lake, full of sunhght,
Pernella concubma
The sleeve green and shot gold over her hand WuhlOg her son to lOhent
Expectmg the heu alOe be killed 10 battle
He belOg courageous, pOIsoned hlS brother pwne Laymg blame on Siena
And thlS she did by a page
Bnngmg war once more on Ploghano
And the page repented and told tlus
To NIcolo (alOe) Pltlghano
Who won back that rock from hIS father
. . st1lI dotmg on Pernella hls concublOe"
The sand that mght lIke a seal's back
Glossy beneath the lanthorns From the Via Sacra
(fleelOg what band of Tntons) Up to the open au
Over that mound of the hippodrome Llberans et vmculo ab ornnl hberatos
As who WIth four hands at the cross roads By kmg's hand or sacerdos'
are given thetr freedom
- Save who were at Castra San Zeno
CUnlzza for God's love, for remlttmg the soul of her father - May hell take the traItors of Zeno
And :fifth begat he Albertc
And SIXth the Lady CunlZZa
? In the house of the Cavalcantl
anno 12. 65
Free go they all as by full manumission
All serfs of Eccehn my father da Romano
Save those who were With Albenc at Castra San Zeno And let them go also
The devils of hell In their body
And sIxth the Lady Cumzza
That was first gIven RIchard St Bomface
And Sordello subtracted her from that husband And lay with her In TarVlSO
TJ. I he was dnven out of Tarvlso
And she left with a soldIer named BonlUs mmlum amorata In eum
And went from one place to another
" The lIght of thiS star o'ercame me"
Greatly enJoYIng herself
And runnIng up the most awful bdls
And trus BonlUs was killed on a sunday
and she had then a Lord from Braganza
and later a house In Verona
And he looked from the planks to heaven,
Said Juventus t t Immortal
He said tt Ten thousand years before now
Or he said t t PassIng Into the pomt of the cone You begxn by makIng the replIca
Thus Lusty Juventus, In September,
In cool air, under sky,
Before the reSidence of the funeral dIrector Whose daughters' conduct caused comment
But the old man dId not know how he felt
Nor cd remember what prompted the utterance He saId tt What I know, I have known,
tt How can the knowmg cease knOWIng) "
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? By the lawn of the semor elder
He continued Ius ambulatlOn
Ct Matter 1$ the lIghtest of all thmgs,
Ct Chaff, rolled mto balls, tossed, whIrled m the aether,
Ct Undoubtedly crushed by the weight,
Ct Light also proceeds from the eye,
Ct In the globe over my head
. . Twenty feet m diameter, thirty feet In diameter
. . Glassy, the glarIng surface-
. . There are many reflections
. . So that one may watch them turnmg and movmg
tt With heads down now, and now up
He went on toward the amateur student of minerals That later went bankrupt,
He went on past the house of the local funny man,
Jo Tyson that had a camera HIs daughter was bow-legged And marned the assembly-man's son
O-hon dlt que-ke fOls au VI'-a-ge
Past the house of the three retired clergymen Who were too cultured to keep theIr Jobs Languor has crred unto languor
about the marshmallow-roast (Let us speak of the osmOSIS of persons)
The wall of the phonograph has penetrated their marrow (Let us
The wall of the pornograph )
The CIcadas contmue uninterrupted
With a VaIn emptIness the vlrgms return to thelt homes With a vam exasperation
The ephebe has gone back to hIS dwellmg,
The dJassban has hammered and hammered,
The gentleman of fifty has leflected That It 15 perhaps Just as well
Let thIngs remam as they are
? The mythologIcal exterIor lIes on the moss In the forest And questIons hIm about DarWIn
And with a burnIng fire of phantasy
he replIes wIth ((Deh' nuvoletta " So that she would regret hiS departure
Drift of weed In the bay She seekIng a gUIde, a mentor,
He aspires to a career wIth honour To step In the tracks of hiS elders,
a greater IncomprehensIon) There IS no greater IncomprehenSion
Than between the young and the young The young seek comprehensIon,
The mIddleaged to fulfill theIr deSIre
Sea weed drIed now, and now floated,
mInd drIfts, weed, slow youth, drIfts, Stretched on the rock, bleached and now floated~ WeIn, Welb, TAN AOIDAN
ChIefest of these the second, the female
Is an element, the female
Is a chaos
An octopus
A bIologIcal process
and we seek to ful:6. 11 T AN AOIDAN, our deSIre, drIft
Atlas e que'm fau mIey huelh
Quar no vezon so qu'leu vuelh Our mulberry leaf, woman, TAN AOIDAN,
U Nel ventre tuo, 0 nella mente mIa, Ct Yes, MIlady, precisely, 1? you wd have anythmg properly made U
tt FaZIamo tutte Ie due
tt No, not In the palm-room" The lady says It IS Too cold In the palm-room Des valeurs,
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? Nom de Dleu, et encore des valeurs
She IS submarine, she IS an octopus, she IS
A bIologIcal process,
So Arnaut turned there
Above hIm the wave pattern cut In the stone SpIre-top alevel the well-curb
And the tower with cut stone above that, sayIng Ct I am afraid of the lIfe after death "
and after a pause
et Now, at last, I have shocked him"
And another day or evening toward sundown by the arena
(les gradIns)
A lIttle lace at the wrIst
And not very clean lace eIther
And I, et But thIS beats me,
U Beats me, I mean that I do not understand It, U ThIs love of death that IS In them"
Let us consIder the osmOSIS of persons nondum orto Jubare,
The tower, Ivory, the clear sky Ivory rigId In sunlight
And the pale clear of the heaven PhOlobos of narrow thIghs,
The cut cool of the aIr,
Blossom cut on the Wind, by HellOS
Lord of the LIght's edge, and Apnl
Blown round the feet of the God,
Beauty on an ass-cart
SItting on five sacks of laundry
That wd have been the road by Perugla
That leads out to San Plero Eyes brown topaz, Brookwater over brown sand,
The whIte hounds on the slope,
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? GlIde of water, lIghts and the prore, StIver beaks out of nIght,
Stone, bough over bough,
lamps fluId In water,
PIne by the black trunk of Its shadow And on hJ11 black trunks of the shadow The trees melted In aIr
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OMPLEYNT, compleynt I hearde upon a day, CArtemis singing, Artemis, ArtemIs
Agaynst Pity lifted her wall
PIty causeth the forests to fall, PIty slayeth my nymphs,
PIty spareth so many an evu thing
PIty befouleth AprIl,
PIty 15 the root al1d the spring
Now If no fayre creature followeth me It IS on account of PIty,
It IS on account that Pity forbldetll them slaye All things are made foul In thIS season,
ThIS IS the reason, none may seek purIty HaVing for foulnesse pity
And thIngs growne awry,
No more do my shaftes fly
To slay NothIng 18 now clean sIayne But rotteth away
In Paphos, on a day
I also heard
goeth not with young Mars to playe But she hath pity on a dodderIng fool,
She tendeth hIS fyre,
She keepeth hIS embers warm
Time IS the eVIl EVIl
A day, and a day
Walked the young Pedro baffled,
a day and a day
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? After Ignez was murdered
Came the Lords In Lisboa
a day, and a day
In homage Seated there
dead eyes,
Dead haIr under the crown,
The KIng sttll young there besIde her
Came Madame 'TA. R
Clothed with the light of the altar And with the prIce of the candles U Honour') Balls for yr honour' Take two mullon and swallow It "
Is come MeSSIre Alfonso And IS departed by boat for Ferrara
And has passed here without sayIng (C 0 "
Whence 11ave we carved It In metal Here working In Caesar's fane
To the PrInce Caesare BorgIa
Duke of Valent and Aemeha
and here have I brought cutters of letters
and printers not vIle and vulgar (In Fano Caesarls)
notable and sufficient compOSItors
and a die-cutter for greek fonts and hebrew
named MeSSlre Francesco da Bologna
not only of the usual types but he hath excogttated
a new form called cursive or chancellry letters
nor was It Aldous nor any other but It was
thIS Messlre Francesco who hath cut all Aldous hiS letters WIth such grace and charm as IS known
Hleronymous Sonclnus 7th July 1503 and as for text we have taken It
? from that of MeSSlre Laurentlus
and from a codex once of the Lords Malatesta
And In August that year dIed Pope Alessandro Borgta, II Papa morl
ExplIcIt canto XXX
? ELEVEN NEW CANTOS XXXI-XLI
? XXXI
EMPUS loquendl, TTempus tacendl
Said Mr Jefferson It wd have given us tIme
tt modern dress for your statue
tC I remember havIng wrItten you whue Congress sat at An~
napolls,
cc on water communIcatIon between ours and the western
Coul1try,
U partIcularly the mformation of the plam between
tc BIg Beaver and Cayohoga, whIch made me hope that a canal
naVIgatIon of Lake ErIe and the OhIo You must have had U occaSIon of gettIng better InformatIon on thIs subject
u and 1? you have you wd oblIge me
tc by a communIcatIon of It I consIder thIs canal,
( t If practIcable, as a very Important work
T J to General WashIngton, 1787
no slaves north of Maryland dIstrIct
flower found In ConnectIcut that vegetates when suspended
In aIr
screw more effectual 1? placed below surface of water
Suspect that a countryman of ours, Mr Bushnell of ConnectIcut IS entItled to the merIt of prIor dIscovery
Excellency Mr Adams Excellency Dr Frankhn
And thus Mr Jefferson (preSIdent) to Tom PaIne
e:t You expressed a WIsh to get a passage to thIs country
In a publIC vessel Mr Dawson IS charged With orders
to the captaIn of the <Maryland' to receIve and accommodate
you
With passage back, If you can depart on so short a warnmg
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? In hopes you wIll find us returned to sentlnlcnts
worthy of former tIme In these you have laboured as much as any man hVlng That you may long lIve to continue your labours and to reap theIr fittIng reward Assurances of my hIgh esteem and attachment"
u EnglIsh papers theIr lies
In a few years no slaves northward of Marylapd
Ct Their tobacco, 9 mIllIons, delIvered In port of France, 6 mIllIons to manufacture
on whIch the kIng takes thirty mIllIon
that cost 25 odd to collect
so that In all It costs 72 mIllIons 11vres to the consumer
persuaded (I am) In this branch of the revenue the collection absorbs too much
(from ParIS, 1785) for our model, the Malson Quarree of N Ismes
WIth respect to hiS motIves (MadIson wrItIng) I acknowledged I had been much puzzled to dIVIne any natural ones
WIthout lookIng deeper Into human nature
than I was WIllIng to do
(In rei Mr Robert Smith) So crItIcal the state of that country
moneyed men I Imagtne are glad to place theIr money abro:ad
Mr Adams could borrow there for us
ThIs country IS really supposed to be on the eve ofaxTzBK49HT
(parts of t1:Jzs letter 11t cypher)
Jefferson, from ParIS, to MadIson, Aug 2, 1787
I hear that Mr Beaumarchals means to make hnnsel? heard turn thro'llgh the Potomac, commerce of Lake ErIe
I can further say WIth safety there IS not a crowned head 154
? In Europe whose talents or merIts would entItle hIm to be elected a vestryman by any AmerIcan parIsh
T J to General Washmgton, May. 2 'S8
cc When Lafayette harangued you and me and John QUIncy Adams
(( through a whole evenIng In your hotel 111 the CuI de Sac
(I: sIlent as you were I was, In plaIn truth as astonIshed
U at the grossness of hIS Ignorance of government and history, (( as I had been for years before at that of Turgot,
(C La Rochefoucauld, of Condorcet and of FranklIn"
To Mr Jefferson, Mr John Adams
care of the letters now enclosed Most of them are of a compleXIon not proper for the eye of the pollce
From MontIcello, AprIl 16th 1 8 1 1
To Mr Barlow departing for Pans
mdebted to nobody for more cormal aId than to GallatIn
U AdaIr too had hIS kInk He belIeved all the IndIans of (( AmerIca to be descended from the Jews"
Mr Jefferson to Mr Adams
u But obselve that the publIC were at the same tIme paYIng on It an Interest of exactly the same amount
(four mIllIon dollars) Where then IS the gaIn to elthel party whIch makes It a publIC blessIng";) "
to Mr Eppes, r813
tt Man, a ratIonal creature' " saId FranklIn
U Come, let us suppose a ratIonal man
tC StrIp hIm of all hIS appetites, espeCially hIS hunger and thirst
U
U
U
u u
He IS In hIS chamber, engaged In makIng experIments, Or In purSUIng some problem
At thIs moment a servant knocks t SIr,
t dInner IS on the table '
t Hamandchickens~,t Ham''
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? U t And must I break the chaIn of my thoughts to
u t go down and gnaw a morsel of damned hog's arse?
H t Put aSIde your ham, I wIll dine tomorrow, '
Take away appetIte, and the present generatIon would not LIve a month, and no future generatIon would eXIst, and thus the exalted dIgnIty of human nature etc
U
U
tt
Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson, I 5 Nov I 8I 3 wIsh that I cd subjOIn GosIndl's Syntagma
of the doctrines of Eplcurus
this was the state of things m 1785 "
(Mr Adams)
(Mr Jefferson )
met by agreement, about the close of the seSSlon- PatrIck Henry, Frank Lee and your father,
Henry Lee and myself to consult measures CIrcumstances of tImes seemed to call for
produce some channel of correspondence thIs was In '73 Jefferson to D Carr
church of St Peter human reason, human conSCIence, though I beheve that there are such thIngs
A tIel leis en anCIen scripture, and thIs they have translated Holy ScrIpture
Mr Jefferson
and they contInue thIS error
t t Bonaparte knOWIng nothIng of commerce
or paupers, who are about one fifth of the whole (on the state of England In 1814)
Htc Expltclt Cantus
Mr Adams
? XXXII
HE revolutIon," saId Mr Adams, Tcc Took place In the mInds of the people"
wIth SIxty cannon, ten tons of powder, 10,000 muskets and bayonets, lead, bed-covers,
unIforms and a colonel, to affirm theIr neutralIty the Amphi- trIte
departed the tenth of March to her first destInation
and a fourth whIch orders the lIquIdatIon
and payment of what remaIns due to the Merchants of Morea et des dettes des Jztes Echelles as you may
read dans les arrets prZ1z,CtpaUx du Consezl, aecembre, 'sotxante
szx
armes et autres ustenczles qUt ne peuvent etre que pour Ie compte du gouvernement MonSIeur Satnt-Ltbtn tres au fatt des langues du Pays, connu des Nababs especIally Hyder Ah
POtty l'e~czter,et a tattler des croupteres to the Anglozs pet-/, delzcat sur Ies moyens to break up our bonds
WIth the Portagoose and as for the AmphitrIte, M'lorrd she fits under Beaumarchals' superVISIon, her cargo maInly munItIons
WItnesses WIll some of them prove that he (Burr) had no Interest In the OhIO canal
coram non JudIce
as usual where an opInIon IS to be supported rIght or wrong,
dwells on smaller objectIons and passes over the solId Oryzla mutlca, the upland or mountaIn rIce
seed of perennIal succory very famous turnIp of Sweden
I pray you place me rectus In curIa In thIS bUSIness WIth the Emperor (Alexander) and to assure hIm
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? that I carry Into my retIrement the hIghest veneratIon for hIs diSposItIons to better at least In some degree the
condItIon of man oppressed
If you return to us, to brIng me a couple
of shepherd dogs, true-bred much desIred that war be aVOIded
type-foundIng to whIch c1ntImony IS essential, I therefore place Mr Ronaldson In your hands
be aVOIded, If cIrcumstances WIll admIt
for CIVIlIZIng the IndIans, great Improvement on the
anCIent Ineffectual whIch began WIth relIgIOUS minIstration:; The follOWIng has been successful FIrst, to raIse cattle whereby to acquIre a sense of the value of property
arIthmetIC to compute that value, thIrdly wrItIng, to
keep accounts, and here they begIn to labour,
enclose farms, and the women to weave and SpIn
fourth to read Aesop's Fables, whIch are theIr first delIght along With RobInson Crusoe Creeks, Cherokees, the latter now Instituting a government
and as many, Just as respectable, swore to the contrary all of whom present at the sermon
deeln It necessary to keep them down by hard labour, poverty, Ignorance,
and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnIngs as that unremitting labour shall be necessary to obtain a
suffiCient surplus
barely to sustaIn a scant lIfe And these earnIngs
they apply to maintam their prIvileged orders In splendour and
Idleness
to faSCInate the eyes of the people as to an order of superIor
beIngs June 12. , '23 to Judge Johnson
whether 10 a stye, stable or state-room,
let everything bend before them and banIsh whatever might lead them to thmk and thus are become as mere anImals
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? CannIbals of Europe are eatIng one another agaIn
out of hIs case, to say what tIle law In a moot case would be, Judge Marshall IS Irregular
animal IS entIrely wIthout thought 1? deprIved of that organ
Mr Adams to Mr Jefferson
whether In a stye, a st1ble or In a stateroom LouIS SIxteenth was a fool
The KIng of SpaIn was a fool, the KIng of Naples a fool
they despatched two courrlers weekly to tell each other, over a
thousand mIles
what they had kIlled the KIng of SardInIa
was, lIke all the Bourbons, a fool, the
Portuguese Queen a Braganza and therefore by nature an IdIot, The successor to FrederIC of PrussIa, a mere hog
In body and mInd, Gustavus and Joseph of AustrIa
were as you know really crazy, and George 3d was In
a straIght waistcoat,
there remaIned none but old CatherIne, too lately pIcked up
by whIch we are In the constallt practice of changIng the characters and propensItIes of the anImals we raIse for
our purposes
a gUlsa de leon
The cannIbals of Europe are eatIng one another agaIn
quando 81 posa
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? XXXIII
QUlncey Nov 13, 1815
s that despotIsm
Ior absolute power unlImIted sovereignty,
IS the same In a majOrIty of a popular assembly,
an arlstocratlcal counCil, an olIgarchical Junto, and a sIngle emperor, equally arbitrary, bloody,
and In every respect diabolIcal Wherever It has resided has never failed to destroy all records, memorials,
all histories which It did not like, and to corrupt
those It was cunnIng enough to preserve
If the troops cd be fed upon long letters, I belIeve the gent at the head of that dept (In this country) wd be the best commissary on earth But till I see hIm determIned to act, not to wnte, to sacrifice hIS domestIc ease to the dutIes
of hIS appointment, and apply the resources of thIs country, wheresoever they are to be had, I must entertaIn a dIfferent opinIon of him
T J to P Henry, March '79
over five and twenty mIllIons of people, when four and twenty mlllions and five hundred thousand of them can neither read nor wrIte as Impracticable as It wd be over elephants In the MenagerIe at Versatlles
Napoleon has mvented a word, Ideology, which expresses my OpInion
how far advanced we were In the sCience of aristocracy since the stallions of Theognls Have not Chancellor LIVingston and Major General Humphnes Introduced an arIstocracy of Merino sheep entaued upon us and forever of land Jobbers and stock Jobbers to endless generations
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? AGATHOS, eternal and self-existent JA ISIS
multIplIcatIon of officers and salarIes merely to make par- tIsans
That thIs possessor be kalos k'agathos, theocrat, baron, bOJar or rIch man matters very httle
difference ascrIbed to our superIority m takIng aIm when we fire
tC I speak of the Grand Duke of Tuscany (T J to J A '77) somewhat avanClOUS In hIS nature crowns lyIng dead In hIS coffers, applIcatIon perhaps from Dr FranklIn wd be prudent to sound well before hand "
Condorcet has let the cat out of the bag He has made preCIOUS confessIons I regret that I have only an EnglIsh translatIon of hIs e:t OutlIne of the HIstorIcal Vlew of the Progress of the Htlman MInd" But In pages 247, 248 and 2. 49 you WIll nnd It frankly acknowledged that the phIlosophers of the eIghteenth century adopted all the arts of the PharIsees
was In the mInds of the people, and thIS was effected from 1760 to 1775 In the course of :fifteen years before Lex-
Ington
removal wd be necessary to more able comnussarles rather than
to a more plentIful country (T J on provIsions)
Bonaparte, Poor DevIl' what has and what wIll become of hIm. . Cromwell, W at Tyler, Jack Cade, 1 e to a bad end
And WellIngton, enVIed, despIsed by all the barons, earls,. VIscounts, a~ an upstart, a parvenue elated over theIr heads.
(Mr Adams to Thomas Jefferson)
Lltterae nIhIl sanantes whether serpents' teeth sprang up men. cannot appease my melancholy commIseratIon for our
r6I
? ar'llH. S In thIS furIous snow storm (Qulncey, November 15th )
But two thIngs I dId learn from hIm (Plato) That FranklIn's Idea of exemptIng husbandmen and malIners etc fronl the depredatIons of war was borrowed flom hIm
and (secondly) that SneeZ111g IS a cure for the hlCkups
but to keep In countenance the funding and bankIng system oratIons, prayers, sermons not that they loved General \Vashington, but merely to dIsgrace the old WhIgs
$75,000 equal to 1,000 speCIe (Feb 1781) settler will be wOlth to the publiC 20 tImes as much every year, as In our old plan he would have paid In a SIngle payment
lImIts of hIS IndIvIdualIty (cancels) and develops hIS power as a speCIe (Das Kapltal) denounced In 1842. stIll continue (today 1864) report of '42 was merely chuck. ed Into the archIves and remaIned there whIle these boys were rUined and became fathers of thIS generatIon for workshops remaIned a dead letter down to 1871 when was tal~en from control of munIcIpal and placed In hands of the factory Inspectors, to whose body they added eIght (8) aSSIstants to deal wltll over one hundred thousand workshops and
over 300 tJ. 1e yards
ROgIer (mInister) told me tllat thIS government (Brussels) had been IntendIng to Introduce such a law but found Itself (rei chJ. 1d labour not lImIted to 12. hours per day) always blocked by the Jealous uneaSIness that met any law tamp-
ering WIth the absolute freedom of labour
Lord H de Walden from Brussels 1862.
They (the owners) denounced the Inspectors as a speCIes of revolutIonary commIssar pItIlessly sacrIficing the unfortu-
162.
? nate labourers to theIr humanItarIan fantasIes (rei the law of 1848)
that no factory-owner shall SIt as a magIstrate In cases concern. . Ing the spmning of cotton (Factory Act of Joh. n Hobhouse)
nor shall hIs father, brother, or son
And If the same small boys are merely shIfted from the spInnIng room to the weavmg room or from one factory to another, how can the Inspector verIfy the number of hours they are worked'> (1849, Leonard Horner)
Case where the Jury ('62. ) was to decIde whether soot adul- terated With 90% of dust and sand was U adulterated-m- the-legal-sense" soot or In the commercIal U real soot" As frIends of commerce decIded (the Jury decIded) It was tt real soot" agaInst the plaIntIff WIth costs
avenement revolutIon allemande posalt des problemes nouveaux, routIne commerCIal etre remplacee par creatIon de deux fonds or et ble destInes au proletarIat victorieux (allemand)
to functIonarIes of legatIon In BerlIn who are members of the party (1923)
bureaucrat paisible, Van TZln Vel se montra, tout afaIt Incap- able d'assumer Ie role de chef d'une revolutIon sangwnalre
(accordIng to MonSIeur Bessedovsky)
for ten years our (RUSSIan) ambassadors have enqUIred what theorIes are In fashIon In Moscow and have reported thelr facts to fit (Idem)
Buls dIscounted at exhorbitant rates, four tImes or three tImes those offered by the MIdland
I 50 mIllIons 163
? yearly, merely In usurIOUS dIscounts
and he even
(to change the subJect)
put mto the mouths of the dIrectors of the Federal Reserve
banks the words that they should say ce: You have got more than your share, we want you to reduce, we can not let you have any more"
(Mr Brookhart)
page 34 of the mInutes then they adopted another resolutIon
page 42 commIttee of Interstate commerce, ask Increase of raIlroad rates, saId to them wd suggest, gentlemen, you be careful not to gIve out anythIng about any dIs- CUSSIon of dIscount rates dIsturbs everybody ImmedIate rush never diSCUSS In the newspapers
? & Company's banker was In that meetmg, and next day he was out after a loan of 60 mIllIons, and got It SWlft- amoursinciair but the country at large dId not know It The meetIng deCided we were over-Inflated
? XXXIV
LS' beasts, grasses, petrIfactIons, bIrds, IncrustatIons, OD r MItchell's conversatIon was varIOUS
And a black manservant, to embark on a voyage to RUSSIa
ConsIstent WIth theIr peace and theIr separatIon from Europe EnglIsh pretentlons, exclUSIve, auf clem Wasser (a d 1809) En faIt de commerce ce (Bonaparte) est un etourdI," saId
Romanzoff
Freedom of admISSIon for sIups, freedom of departure, freedom
of purchase and sale
Are the only members of the corps dIplomatIque who have ani
Interest In lIterature, conversatIon
we talked of Shakespeare, MIlton, VIrgil and of the Abbe
Delille
U MonSIeur Adams H saId the Emperor, (( I1 y a cent ans que Je
ne vous al vu " June4th 1811
The Idea occurred to me of a treaty of commerce Told hIm hIS government wd probably make our peace cc How' " saId the ambassador (french)
C ( By not keepIng her word " And he, Bonaparte, saId to Romanzoff
tc After the peace of Tl1s1t, where cd I go but Spain~ " For he must always be gOIng
It IS reported that the two empresses wIll return to the city As IS saId to be customary
At least In wars un peu znteressantes, whIch war Alexander Has done all he can to prevent
Fren. ch army 500 thousand, the RUSSIan 300 thousand,
But counting on space and time
165
? tc The fifth element mud" saId Napoleon
A black, Claud GabrIel, In the cll1peror's serVIce
Was very J11 used In AmerIca Aug 14th to Oranlenbaum Where was Ld Cathcart (tIl1t IS, at Madame de Stael's) And she wanted to know how she cd
Receive her Interest from UnIted States funds
WhIle In England, and a war on between them
Here the nobIlIty have gIven one man to the army
From every ten of theIr peasants
Qu'll fit la sottlse de Moscou
and he, Bonaparte had to borrow SIX shIrts from
hIS mInIster, and four thousand lOUIS Mr GallatIn, Mr Bayard answer from Romanzoff Mr GallatIn
dId not thInk that tc they cd" (dId not
thInk that our actIons In FlorIda could be JustIfied) AgaInst rIghts on the MISSISSIppI our
RIghts to fish, dry:fish and cure off Newfoundland At the opera Tamerlan, and the ballet of Telemaque
1815, March x8th was expected (Bonaparte) last nIght at Auxerre,
Ney to be here (Par1s) tomorrow, because It 1S the
KIng of Rome's bIrthday
March twentieth The KIng, Bourbon, left the TUIllerles, To take, they say, the road gOing toward BeauvaIs
At the Seance Royale last Thursday he had talked of HIS death In defence of the country
And when they WIsh to make the troops cheer, the SoldIers say Ah, VOUl, Vive Ie ROI
Newspaper thIS mornIng headed Journal de l'Emptre
arrIved last even1ng WIth the troops that had been sent out against hIm
whIch IS due to Bourbon mIsconduct
I told him (SIr James Mackmtosh) that I DId not belIeve Dr FranklIn or WashIngton
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? Had wanted the revolutIon He asked If any leadIng man had I saId, my father, perhaps, S'lmuel Adams, James OtIS
(And on hIs return was recd by Gouverneur MorrIs and Mr Astor wIth a pubk dInner at Tammany Hall )
And one nIght a dead fowl was tIed to Mr OnlS's bell rope, As (In hIS eyes) a gt dishonour to SpaIn
Mr Jefferson remarked that fond as he was of agrIculture He knew nothIng about It tho' Mr MadIson dld
Mr MadIson was very effiCIent In the conventIon of '87 ( Mr Bagot has been a much better mInIster
(( than a much abler man wd have been, better
H for the Interest of England, better
C( for the tranquIllIty of thIS country" DeWItt ClInton Ne,rer more low and dIscredIted
Than Just before beIng elected (comma)
WIthout OpposItIon (comma) Governor of New York State
u a ffiIsa11thropIst, an unsocial savage" J Q A on hImself Banks breakIng allover the country,
Some In a sneakIng, some In an ImpertInent manner prostrate every prInCIple of economy
Jan 18th 1820 I (J Q A ) called at the Presldent)s
And the PresIdent saId Colonel Johnson
mIght have been more worthIly occupIed tha'l. In acting as medIum for proposal of
furnIshIng ten thousand stand of arms to Venezuela
In order to make a Job for Duane
ad 1820 IS that moral consIderatIons seldom
appear to have much weIght In
the mInds of statesmen
unless connected WIth popular feelIngs whIle profeSSIng neutralIty
(hImself to hue men from our army 167
? secretzssZl1ZC, on the qUIet) Monroe admIts It Noone else seenlS to mInd
but the vIce-preSIdency I S -
to call thIngs by theIr proper nameS-In the market
U Defective In elen1entary knowledge and wIth a very undIgested system of ethICS, Mr Clay (Henry)"
After conversIng WIth Mr Calhoun, Ad1ms reflected Paper currency reductIons of fictItIOUS capItal AccumulatIon of debts as long as credIt can be straIned Mr Noah has a prOject for colonIZIng Jews In thIS country And wd hke a Job In VIenna
Xmas, 1820, read aloud after breakfast
From Pope's cc MessIah" Not one of my famIly Except George,
appeared to take the least Interest, Nor IS there anyone of them
who has a rehsh for hterature I have been a lawyer for bread,
a statesman at the call of my country
PlaIn modest and tasteless monuments to George ClInton
and ElbrIdge Gerry we have neIther forefathers nor posterIty,
a few years wIll efface them
half educated, lIke almost all emInent men In thIS country
Calhoun thought we oug11t In no case attend a congress of the allIes
England more by her Interest than
from prInCIple of general lIberty
We shd separate from all European concerns
Who have followed (malden ladles have followed)
General Lafayette from Europe to Llsses Oct 2 '24
So that when WashIngton left the senate chamber he saId he Wd be damned If he ever went there agaIn
They (congress) wd do nothIng for
the educatIon of boys but to make soldIers, they
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? wd not endow a unIverSIty (In 182. 6)
Black walnut, almond planted In sprIng
take two months preCIsely to vegetate to the surface
ThIS has been (May 26th) a harassIng day
but I perceIved a tamarInd heavIng up the earth
In tumbler number 2, and In tumbler number one, planted . .
Interfere wIth offiCIal duty~ I saId
I thought that It wd as the U S was Interested In
the Canal Company by theIr subscrIptIon of one mIllIon dollars. . ReadIng Evelyn's (( Sylva" and makIng
TrIVIal observatIons UpOIl the vegetatIon of trees untIl dark
Some senSIbIlIty at partlng~ Clay expressed a WIsh to hear from me now and aga.