Who know not human nature, nor have learn’d
The way to work it, and bring out its worth?
A friend grows grain and chaff. Sift out the first
And cultivate it well, some gain may come—
Some profit from your friendship.”
“But,” said I,
“If you should change yourself who change your friend,
Or change but his relations to yourself,
Or, some way, make a new, strange man of him?”—
“Then would I make,” she said, “what pleases me;