And must be warm'd again; or what has been
Kept back, is now too hastily despatch'd,
And is served up ill dress'd, defrauding thus
The act itself of its due merit.—Anon.
Euphron. (Book ix. § 24, p. 597.)
I have had many pupils in my time,
But you, my Lycus, far exceed them all
In clear and solid sense, and piercing judgment.
Young as you are, with only ten months' study,