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"Ανθρωπος έκανή πρόφασις εις το δυστυχείν.

MENANDER.

!

• King Henry the Sixth, Founder of the College.

And ye, that from the stately brow

Of Windsor's heights th’expanse below

Of

grove, of lawn, of mead survey,

Whose turf, whofe shade, whose flowers among

Wanders the hoary Thames along

His silver-winding way.

Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade,

Ah fields belov'd in vain,

Where once my careless childhood ftray'd,

A stranger yet to pain !

I feel the gales, that from ye blow,

A momentary bliss bestow,

As