. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ast about me, mortal;Summer and winter in my breast they swell: Guess now how many venial crowd the portal!Twere quite impossible, I know full well. If the world never ended, to report allThe crimes Ive done in this one life alone;Each item too is catalogued and known. I pray you listen for one little minute ; The skein shall be unraveled in a trice:—When Ive got cash, Im gay as any linnet. Cast with who calls, cut cards, and fling the dice;All times, all places, or the devils in it, Serve me for play; Ive spent o
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . ast about me, mortal;Summer and winter in my breast they swell: Guess now how many venial crowd the portal!Twere quite impossible, I know full well. If the world never ended, to report allThe crimes Ive done in this one life alone;Each item too is catalogued and known. I pray you listen for one little minute ; The skein shall be unraveled in a trice:—When Ive got cash, Im gay as any linnet. Cast with who calls, cut cards, and fling the dice;All times, all places, or the devils in it, Serve me for play; Ive spent on this one viceFame, fortune—staked my coat, my shirt, my breeches;I hope this specimen will meet your wishes. Dont ask what jugglers tricks I teach the boxes ! Or whether sizes serve me when I call,Or jumps an ace up !—Foxes pair with foxes ; The same pitch tars our fingers, one and all!—Perhaps I dont know how to fleece the doxies? Perhaps I cant cheat, cozen, swindle, bawl ?Perhaps I never learned to patter slang ?—I know each trick, each turn, and lead the The name of Niccolo Machiavelli lias stood for infamythroughout three centuries, and even yet has a flavor of thediabolic about it. The Elizabethan playwright brought outthe figure of Machiavelli as prologue much as if it repre-sented Fiendishness incarnate; and to-day Machiavellianpolitics are regarded as synonymous with arbitrary power sup-ported by cunning craft. In reality Niccolo Machiavelli was,if his newer and brighter rehabilitation be correct, a warmlover of freedom. As Snell puts the case: * MachiavellisII Principe (The Prince) is a scientific presentment ofcertain very abstruse results which he had accomplished inhis Commentary on Livy—a treatise on political spite of its evil savor, it was written, there is every reasonto believe, with the best intentions. The actual design ofMachiavelli is to show on what terms sovereignty can beattained and upheld, human nature remaining what it
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