In short, we'll grow as moral as we can,
Save, here and there, a woman or a man;
But neither you, nor we, with all our pains,
Can make clean work; there will be some remains,
While you have still your Oates[78] and we our Haines[79].
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This caution is given by Mercury in the prologue.
"Nunc internosse ut vos possitis facilius,
Ego has habebo hic usque in petaso pinnulas,