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though he may have devoted himself to this har- 

 monic study, has done it solely upon political 

 principles, aware that, in sceptical times like the 

 present, the best-intentioned statesman may fall 

 under the malediction of the poet who has impres- 

 sively declared : 



* " The man that hath no music in his soul 

 Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. 

 Let no such man be trusted.' " 



I have already referred to his grace's powers of 

 eating. These were exercised with more caution and 

 care for his health than might be anticipated ; he was 

 supposed for that by some to be a sort of human 

 ostrich, if the following ironical essay on his mode 

 of living is regarded. This I must give in extenso, 

 as to curtail the dietetic programme would rob it of 

 half its point : — 



'HOW TO LIVE, AFTER A DUCAL RECIPE. 



' If the D of Q does not extend his life to a still longer 



period, it will not be for the want of culinary comforts and those 

 other succulent arts by which longevity is best promoted. 



' His grace's sustenance is thus daily administered : at seven in 

 the morning he regales in a warm milk-bath, perfumed with almond 

 powder, where he takes his coffee and a buttered muffin, and after- 

 wards retires to bed ; he rises about nine, and breakfasts on caf^ 



