When you depart, may captivate her mind;
And I suspect she will rejoice at heart,
Your will once made, if you should soon depart.’
“Long our debate, and much we disagreed;
‘You need no wife,’ I said—said he, ‘I need; 690
I want a house, I want in all I see
To take an interest; what is mine to me?’
So spake the man, who to his word was just,
And took the words of others upon trust.
He could not think that friend in power so high,