And some forgiveness, needs, the best of friends?
For friend, or happy life, who looks not higher,
Of neither shall he find the shadow here.
The world’s sworn advocate, without a fee,
Lorenzo smartly, with a smile, replies:
“Thus far thy song is right; and all must own, 400
Virtue has her peculiar set of pains.—
And joys peculiar who to Vice denies?
If vice it is, with nature to comply:
If Pride, and Sense, are so predominant,