LII.

However, he replied at hazard, with

A modest confidence and calm assurance,

Which lent his learnéd lucubrations pith,

And passed for arguments of good endurance.

That prodigy, Miss Araminta Smith

(Who at sixteen translated "Hercules Furens"

Into as furious English), with her best look,

Set down his sayings in her common-place book.

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