Or, what's still worse, to put you out of fashion,—

The kinder veteran with calm words will court you,

Entreating you to pause before you dash on;

Expounding and illustrating the riddle

Of epic Love's beginning—end—and middle.

XLVI.

Now whether it be thus, or that they are stricter,

As better knowing why they should be so,

I think you'll find from many a family picture,

That daughters of such mothers as may know