To trace the progress of their future years:

Through what strange course of misery, vice, deceit,

Must wildly wander each unpractised cheat!

What shame and grief, what punishment and pain,

Sport of fierce passions, must each child sustain -

Ere they like him approach their latter end,

Without a hope, a comfort, or a friend!

But this Orlando felt not; “Rogues,” said he,

“Doubtless they are, but merry rogues they be;

They wander round the land, and be it true