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Or vieni, Amore, e quà meco t'assetta. ORLANDO INNAMORATO.
_Mr. Chainmail_. -Would it not be a fine thing, Captain, you being picturesque, and I poetical; you being for the lights and shadows of the present, and I for those of the past; if we were to go together over the ground which was travelled in the twelfth century by Giraldus de Barri, when he accompanied Archbishop Baldwin to preach the crusade?