To her own Will th’affection of the boy.
Therefore a Friend and Neighbour he besought
That no such Evil on the Child be wrought;
And, tho’ the friend was Christian, all was well.
This rather pleas’d the dying Infidel;
For he confess’d he had among them seen, 640
As spake their Actions, some with Conscience clean;
And not Philosophers themselves were found
Above all seeming and within all sound.
Julian was thus in purest knowledge train’d,