Without, or with, offence to friends or foes,
I sketch your world exactly as it goes.
XC.
And one good action in the midst of crimes
Is "quite refreshing," in the affected phrase[461]
Of these ambrosial, Pharisaic times,
With all their pretty milk-and-water ways,
And may serve therefore to bedew these rhymes,
A little scorched at present with the blaze
Of conquest and its consequences, which