Young as he was, he found himself too old
This youthful beauty coolly to behold.
Domestics idly talk’d of future Tyes,
And Julian’s Mother of her new Allies.
She pleas’d her boy by praises of his choice,
Before he chose, and gave, unask’d, her voice; 680
Bade him by Care assiduous to retain
The Influence that his Sex and age must gain;
He was no Child, and, if he were, ’twas just
For him to look to what he had to trust.