If you adopt this axiom, your character will be handed down to posterity, like that of the Duke of the Venetians, to whom I have alluded.

All the world will admire and love you.
[Illustration: VICENZA.] "To conceal nothing from you, I confess that I have heard with grief of your league with the King of Arragon.

What! shall Italians go and implore succour of barbarous kings to destroy Italians?
You will say, perhaps, that your enemies have set you the example.

My answer is, that they are equally culpable.

According to report, Venice, in order to satiate her rage, calls to her aid tyrants of the west; whilst Genoa brings in those of the east.