Than wooing wisdom, that in her a soul

Has risen? Adieu: content are we!

XLV.

Those ladies led their captive to the flood’s

Green edge. He floating with them seemed the most

Fool-flushed old noddy ever crowned with buds.

Happier than I! Then, why not wiser too?

For he that lives with Beauty, he may boast

His comrade over me and you.

XLVI.