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,