REFLECTIONS
Quid juvat errores, mersâ jam puppe, fateri?
Quid lacrymæ delicta juvant commissa secutæ?
Claudian. in Eutrop. lib. ii. lin. 7
What avails it, when shipwrecked, that error appears?
Are the crimes we commit wash'd away by our tears?
When all the fiercer passions cease
(The glory and disgrace of youth);
When the deluded soul, in peace,