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?