Of odor in the hogs'-lard? what pretends
To aught except a grease-pot's quality?
Friend, sophist-hating! know,—worst sophistry
Is when man's own soul plays its own self false,
Reasons a vice into a virtue, pleads
'I detail sin to shame its author'—not
'I shame Ariphrades for sin's display!'
'I show Opora to commend Sweet Home'—
Not 'I show Bacchis for the striplings' sake!'
"Yet all the same—O genius and O gold—