Being tired in time—and, neither least nor last,

Left it before he had been treated very ill;

And henceforth found himself more gaily classed

Amongst the higher spirits of the day,

The Sun's true son, no vapour, but a ray.

LXV.

His morns he passed in business—which dissected,

Was, like all business, a laborious nothing

That leads to lassitude, the most infected

And Centaur Nessus garb of mortal clothing,[596]