Their difference is radical, as all may see!199
XIV.
The Chinese and Roman Artists.
Give ear to this advice from one who’s well informed:
“Lay down your head where’er by wine you’ve been transformed.”
Whene’er a drunken man reels forth from tavern door,
A laughingstock he’s made by urchin and by boor.
Now here, now there, he lurches, stumbling on his road;
Falls in the mire; is mocked and jeered, scorned as a toad.
The children of the neighbourhood his steps surround,