"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