Trifles may wake me, but they never wound;

In them indeed there is a wrong and right,

But you will find me pliant and polite;

Not like a Conscience of the dotard kind,

Awake to dreams, to dire offences blind:

Let all within be pure, in all beside

Be your own master, governor, and guide;

Alive to danger, in temptation strong,

And I shall sleep our whole existence long.”

“Sweet be thy sleep,” said Fulham; “strong must be