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Childe Harold was he hight:22—but whence his namep And lineage long, it suits me not to say; Suffice it, that perchance they were of fame, And had been glorious in another day: But one sad losel soils a name for ay,23 However mighty in the olden time; Nor all that heralds rake from coffined clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,q Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.