That musing Meditation most [affects]
The pensive secrecy of desert cell,
Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds,
And sits as safe as in a senate-house;
For who would rob a hermit of his [weeds], 390
His few books, or his beads, or maple dish,
Or do his gray hairs any violence?
But Beauty, like [the fair Hesperian tree]
Laden with blooming gold, [had need the guard]
Of [dragon-watch] with unenchanted eye 395