"but believe me, believe me, my simple-hearted friends, that in this highly moral verse, in this academical blessing to the world in general in the french language, is hidden the intensest gall and bitterness; but so well concealed is the venom, that i dare say the poet actually persuaded himself that his words were full of the tears of pardon and peace, instead of the bitterness of disappointment and malice, and so died in the delusion.