How to form judgments as they ought,

And not see with another’s glass;

For things are come to such a pass,

That love and hate work diff’rent ways,

As int’rest or ambition sways.

Them you may know, in them confide,

Whom by experience you have tried.

Thus have I made a long amends

For that brief style which some offends.

[XI.] THE COCK AND THE PEARL.