True, they gave no advice; no counsel did result.
Upon the balance barley’s weighed, as well as gold;
But barley, thence, has not acquired gold’s value told.
The spirit with the flesh is fellow-traveller now;
A dog has sometimes charge of palace-yard below.
The company, then, set out for the woods amain,
As followers of the lion’s majesty, and train.10
A mountain-ox, an ibex, next a hare, they took;
Since fortune smiled on them in each succeeding nook.
A lion’s followers on the plain of strife and war,