What, are we blind? How can we fail to learn

This crowd of miseries make the man a mark,

Accumulate on one devoted head

For our example?—yours and mine who read

Its lesson thus—"Henceforward let none dare

Stand, like a natural in the public way,

Letting the very urchins twitch his beard

And tweak his nose, to earn a nickname so,

Be styled male-Grissel or else modern Job!"

Had Guido, in the twinkling of an eye,