F. Then hear my tale; but I the price demand: }
That understood, I too must understand }
Thy wanderings through, or sufferings in, the land; }
And, if our virtues cannot much produce,
Perhaps our errors may be found of use.
To all the wealth my Father’s care laid by,
I added wings, and taught it how to fly.
To him that act had been of grievous sight; 70
But he survived not to behold the flight.
Strange doth it seem to grave and sober minds,