What, then, could fortune, what could safety, give,
If [he] with these at enmity must live?
“Go!”—and the young man from his presence went, }
Confused, uncertain of his own intent— }
To sin, if pride prevail’d; if soften’d, to repent. }
II.
P. Lives yet the Friend of that unhappy Boy,
Who could the WILL that made him rich destroy,
And made him poor? And what the after-plan,
For one so selfish, of that stern, good man?