A Sequel to Don Juan — page 209: what you’re looking at

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200 A SEQUEL TO CXXVITI. Now thundered forth the bloody eloquence Of Marat asking heads, as they had been Apples—and with an earnestness intense Craving new victims for the guillotine.* And thither go rank, beauty, innocence, Fore-runners of their monarch and their queen :— Frenchmen, ye sought for liberty and won Slavery :—the Reign of Terror had begun ! CXX VIII. Oh! better far the Bastille—better still — The arbitrary sceptre of one hand, 7 Than an obedience to the hellish will Of Marat, Danton, and their demon-band : Better one monarch armed with power to kill, Than hundreds flourishing the naked brand : Better have kept all that so late had been Than crush the throne to raise the guillotine ! * Marat in his journal actually demanded 279,000 heads ; and when ke was accused of the circumstance in the Convention, he savagely replied that he should call for as many more if they were not eranted. (©) boo S (S@)