He can be guilty of conflicting crimes;
Greedy of others’ wealth, unknown the use,
And of his own contemptuously profuse.
“To such a mind shall I my wealth confide,
That you to nobler, worthier ends, may guide?
No! let my Will my scorn of vice express,
And let him learn repentance from distress.”
So said the Father; and the Friend, who spurn’d
Wealth ill-acquired, his sober speech return’d— 20
“The youth is faulty, but his faults are weigh’d