And always have done,—somehow these good looks

Make more impression than the best of books.

LXXXV.

Aurora, who looked more on books than faces,

Was very young, although so very sage,

Admiring more Minerva than the Graces,

Especially upon a printed page.

But Virtue's self, with all her tightest laces,

Has not the natural stays of strict old age;

And Socrates, that model of all duty,