Terms perhaps known to August to be rash; to have been frightfully rash; but what can he now do?
Archbishop thereupon gives absolution of his sins; Archbishop does,--a baddish, unlikely kind of man, as August well knows.

August "laid his hand on his eyes," during such sad absolution-mummery; and in that posture had breathed his last, before it was well over.

["Sunday, 1st February, 1733, quarter past 4 A.M." (Fassmann, _Leben Frederici Augusti Konigs in Pohlen,_ pp.
994-997).] Unhappy soul; who shall judge him ?--transcendent King of edacious Flunkies; not without fine qualities, which he turned to such a use amid the temptations of this world! POLAND HAS TO FIND A NEW KING.
His death brought vast miseries on Poland; kindled foolish Europe generally into fighting, and gave our Crown-Prince his first actual sight and experience of the facts of War.

For which reason, hardly for another, the thing having otherwise little memorability at present, let us give some brief synopsis of it, the briefer the better.

Here, excerpted from multifarious old Note-books, are some main heads of the affair:-- "On the disappearance of August the Strong, his plans of Partitioning Poland disappeared too, and his fine trains in the Diet abolished themselves.