Your love, the Wolf, would help you to invent:

Some German quarrel, or, as times go now,

Some French,[190] where force is uppermost, will do.

When at the fountain's head, as merit ought

To claim the place, you take a swilling draught,

How easy 'tis an envious eye to throw,

And tax the sheep for troubling streams below;

Or call her, when no farther cause you find,

An enemy professed of all your kind!

But, then, perhaps, the wicked world would think,