Sunk, lost, degraded, never more to rise!
Far off the glorious height from whence it fell,
With all things base and infamous to dwell.
Friendship with woman is a dangerous thing—
Thence hopes avow’d and bold confessions spring;
Frailties confess’d to other frailties lead,
And new confessions new desires succeed; 590
And, when the friends have thus their hearts disclosed,
They find how little is to guilt opposed.
The foe’s attack will on the fort begin,