XXXIX.
—Look, lady, where yon river winds its line
Toward sunset, and receives on breast and face
The splendour of fair life: to be divine,
’Tis nature bids you be to nature true,
Flowing with beauty, lending earth your grace,
Reflecting heaven in clearness you.
XL.
—Sir, you speak well: your friend no word vouchsafes.
To flow with beauty, breeding fools and worse,