XXXIX.

I don't know how it was, but he grew sick:

The Empress was alarmed, and her physician

(The same who physicked Peter) found the tick

Of his fierce pulse betoken a condition

Which augured of the dead, however quick
Itself, and showed a feverish disposition;

At which the whole Court was extremely troubled,

The Sovereign shocked, and all his medicines doubled.

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