The rest unbeneficed your sects maintain; }
For ordinations, without cures, are vain, }
And chamber practice is a silent gain. }
Your sons of breadth at home are much like these;
Their soft and yielding metals run with ease;
They melt, and take the figure of the mould,
But harden and preserve it best in gold.—
Your Delphic sword, the Panther then replied,
Is double-edged, and cuts on either side.
Some sons of mine, who bear upon their shield