Gives me no pleasure, and is pain to thee.

Well! let us leave these things, and, if we may,

Seek out some means to 'scape from this thy woe.

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Prom. 'Tis a light thing for one who has his foot

Beyond the reach of evil to exhort

And counsel him who suffers. This to me

Was all well known. Yea, willing, willingly

I sinned, nor will deny it. Helping men,

I for myself found trouble: yet I thought not