Yours is the right, the safe, the certain way, }

’Tis wisdom to be good, ’tis virtue to obey. 620}

So Rachel thinks, the pure, the good, the meek,

Whose outward acts the inward purpose speak.

As men will children at their sports behold,

And smile to see them, though unmoved and cold;

Smile at the recollected games, and then

Depart and mix in the affairs of men:

So Rachel looks upon the world, and sees

It cannot longer pain her, longer please,