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Sir, stay at home and take an old man's counsel;

Seek not to bask you by a stranger's hearth;

Our own blue smoke is warmer than their fire.

Domestic food is wholesome, though 'tis homely,

And foreign dainties poisonous, though tasteful.

The French Courtezan.

THE Master of Ravenswood took an opportunity to leave his guests to prepa