But with pure joy to envious souls denied,
To suppliant meanness and suspicious pride;
And village-maids of happy couples say,
“They live like Jesse Bourn and Colin Grey.”
TALE XIV.
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.
I am a villain; yet I lie, I am not:
Fool! of thyself speak well: - Fool! do not flatter.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale.