Note 239 — CANTO THE FOURTH.
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["The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns: There can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale's complaining notes Tune my distresses, and record, my woes."
Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 4, lines 2-6.]