"A too-prolonged existence. Let the worm

Change at fit season to the butterfly!

And here a story strikes me, to confirm

"This judgment. Of our worthies, none ranks high

As Perida who kept the famous school:

None rivalled him in patience: none! For why?

"In lecturing it was his constant rule,

Whatever he expounded, to repeat

—Ay, and keep on repeating, lest some fool

"Should fail to understand him fully—(feat