They have a singular coherence.

Oh yes, my pensive youth, abstain;

And any empty sick sensation.

Remember, anything like pain

Is only your imagination.

Trust me, I’ve read your German sage

To far more purpose e’er than you did;

You find it in his wisest page,

Whom God deludes is well deluded.

Di. Where are the great, whom thou would’st wish to praise thee?