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Tell men of high condition / / That rule affairs of state, / / Their purpose is ambition, / / Their practice only hate; / / And if they once reply, / / Then give them all the lie. / Tell Wit how much it wrangles / / In tickle points of niceness / / Tell Wisdom she entangles / / Herself in over-wiseness; / / And when they do reply, / / Straight give them both the lie. / / JOSHUA SILVESTER.
Robin had, doubtless, good reasons for the hint he had given Barbara, that she might soon again see the Buccaneer, and that she would do well to use that forbearance towards him which she had so kindly and so invariably practised towards the Ranger. After leaving her, as we have stated, in safety at one of the entrances to Cecil Place, he proceeded to the Gull's Nest. His first inquiries were concerning the boy who had contrived to steal a passage on board the Fire-fly from France to England, and who had pretended dumbness. How the youth got on board his vessel, Dalton could not imagine; although, when the discovery was made, his feigning the infirmity we have mentioned succeeded so well, that the Buccaneer absolutely believed he could neither hear nor speak, and sympathised with him accordingly.