A Sequel to Don Juan — page 208: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

4 DON JUAN. 199 CXXV. For three long months had he an inmate been (Sweet reader, tremble not) of God’s Hotel : Spite of its name, it often is the scene Of agonies which rather smack of hell ; For there Death’s servitors, pale, gaunt, and lean, Palsy, Consumption, Fever, Dropsy dwell ; But it is in a charitable view That Frenchmen always call it ‘‘ Hotel Dieu,’’ * CXXVI. “Twas now September. Twelve short weeks were gone— But not in idleness had they been past: Around lay all the ruins of the throne— Sceptre and orb upon the footway cast ; The work of ages in a day undone, The regal mantle trodden on at last ; The populace in power—a King in chains— And altars broken in their sacred fanes, * The name generally given to Hospitals in France. The one here alluded to is that situate in the immediate vicinity of Notre Dame, and which, in the time of Louis the Sixteenth, was so crowded with patients that orders were issued to build five new hospitals in different parts of Paris. COMmicloooks. con