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