How could I once look up, or heave the head,

Who, like a foolish pilot, have shipwracked

My vessel trusted to me from above,

Gloriously rigged; and for a word, a tear, 200

Fool! have divulged the secret gift of God

To a deceitful woman? tell me, friends,

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool

In every street? do they not say, 'how well

Are come upon him his deserts?' yet why? 205

Immeasurable strength they might behold