Such scribes to do homage!

Fifth Friend. Stay! Once—and now twice—

Yea, a third time, my sharp eye completes the inspection

Of line after line, the whole series, and finds

Each letter join each—not a fault for detection!

Such upstrokes, such downstrokes, such strokes of all kinds

In the criss-cross, all perfect!

Sixth Friend. There 's nobody minds

His quill-craft with more of a conscience, o'er-scratches

A sheepskin more nimbly and surely with ink,