Upset him quite;—but what's the gain of grief?
"Then came the Author-Rector; his delight
Was all in books; to read them, or to write:
Women and men he strove alike to shun,
And hurried homeward when his tasks were done,
Courteous enough, but careless what he said,
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For points of learning he reserved his head;
And, when addressing either poor or rich,
He knew no better than his cassock which.