To Einsiedeln. Well, error has no end,

And Rhasis is a sage, and Basel boasts

A tribe of wits, and I am wise and blest

Past all dispute! 'T is vain to fret at it.

I have vowed long ago my worshippers

Shall owe to their own deep sagacity

All further information, good or bad.

Small risk indeed my reputation runs,

Unless perchance the glance now searching me

Be fixed much longer; for it seems to spell