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THE COUNTENANCE DOES NOT ALWAYS TRULY INDICATE THE HEART.
When Egypt's traitor Pompey's honour'd head / To Caesar sent; then, records so relate, / To shroud a gladness manifestly great, / Some feigned tears the specious monarch shed: / And, when misfortune her dark mantle spread / O'er Hannibal, and his afflicted state, / He laugh'd 'midst those who wept their adverse fate, / That rank despite to wreak defeat had bred.