The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
même année, ce bon patriote institua la République son héritière, à condition qu'elle employerait ses biens à entretenir le collège dont on projettait la fondation.

"Il parait que Bonnivard mourut en 1570; mais on ne peut l'assurer, parcequ'il y a une lacune dans le Nécrologe depuis le mois de Juillet, 1570, jusques en 1571."—[Histoire Littéraire de Genève, par Jean Senebier (1741-1809), 1786, i. 131-137.]

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THE PRISONER OF CHILLON 

I.

My hair is grey, but not with years,

My

Nor grew it white

In a single night,[3]

As men's have grown from sudden fears:

My limbs are bowed, though not with toil,

But rusted with a vile repose,[b]

For they have been a dungeon's spoil,

And mine has been the fate of those

To whom the goodly earth and air

Are banned,[4] and barred—forbidden fare;10

10

But this was for my father's faith

I suffered chains and courted death;[14]


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