To put such dirty feet in such fine slippers?

And quickly I did this brief answer make:—

'Twas gain that moved me, though against my will,

(But I am old;) and bitter penury;

Which many Thasians also drives on shipboard,

Ill-manner'd youths, and long-ruin'd old men:

Who now sing worthless songs about the place.

Those men I join'd when fit for nothing else;

But I will not depart again for gain,

But doing nothing wrong, I'll here deposit