Patience and suffering for thy rich array:

Thou wilt be modest, kind, implicit, so

To rest thy wily spirit out of show

That it may leap the livelier into play:

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‘Devout at doing nothing, if so be

The grace become thee well; but active yet

Above all others be there none to see

Thy business, and thine eager face asweat.

Lo! I will prove thy talent: thou mayst live,