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Blaney

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A wealthy heir, ruined by dissipation, in Crabbe’s Borough.

“Misery and mirth are blended in his face,

Much innate vileness and some outward grace: …

The serpent’s cunning and the sinner’s fall.”

Lette xiv.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.