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Oh Galuppi, Baldassare, this is very sad to find! / I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind; / But although I take your meaning, 't is with such a heavy mind!
Here you come with your old music, and here 's all the good it brings. / What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the / kings, / Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?