XLIV.

The climate was too cold, they said, for him,

Meridian-born, to bloom in. This opinion

Made the chaste Catherine look a little grim,

Who did not like at first to lose her minion:

But when she saw his dazzling eye wax dim,

And drooping like an eagle's with clipt pinion,

She then resolved to send him on a mission,

But in a style becoming his condition.

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