THE ITALIAN OPERA.

--_Equitis quoque jam migravit ab aure voluptas_

_Omnis ad incertos oculos_, _et gaudia vana_.

HOR., _Ep._ ii. 1, 187.

But now our nobles too are fops and vain,

Neglect the sense, but love the painted scene.

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