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What shall I say of those who ’mid delights, which vilest Idlesse bare for manhood’s bane, spend life and love to waste the gold that blights, and clean forget their ancient valiant strain? Tyrannick best to hostile act incites, which virile races view as foulest stain: To thee I speak, O It’aly! sunk by curse of thousand sins, who dost thyself adverse.