Following the bent of body or of mind)
Have always had a tendency to spare,—
Why do they call me Misanthrope? Because
They hate me, not I them:—and here we'll pause.
XXII.
'T is time we should proceed with our good poem,—
For I maintain that it is really good,
Not only in the body but the proem,
However little both are understood
Just now,—but by and by the Truth will show 'em