I see no sin in ceding to my bent.

You little fancy what rude shocks apprise us

We sin; God's intimations rather fail

In clearness than in energy: 't were well

Did they but indicate the course to take

Like that to be forsaken. I would fain

Be spared a further sample. Here I stand,

And here I stay, be sure, till forced to flit.

Fest. Be you but firm on that head! long ere then

All I expect will come to pass, I trust: