Wer.‍How know you that?

Gab. You're right: I ask for shelter at the hand

Which I call helpless; if you now deny it,30

I were well paid. But you, who seem to have proved

The wholesome bitterness of life, know well,

By sympathy, that all the outspread gold

Of the New World the Spaniard boasts about

Could never tempt the man who knows its worth,

Weighed at its proper value in the balance,

Save in such guise (and there I grant its power,