To bear some weight of meanness on to ill.”
“But I,” I said, “had ask’d the priest’s advice.”
“He handled ill th’ occasion,” answer’d he.
“I would not dare to mould another thus.
Nay, though I knew that I could model thence
The best-form’d manhood of my mind’s ideal.
Who knows?—My own ideal, my wisest aim,
May tempt myself, and others, too, astray.
If I be made one soul to answer for,
And make myself responsible for two,