ALWAYS AUDIBLE
Pass under Jack's window at twelve at night
You'll hear him still—he's roaring!
Pass under Jack's window at twelve at noon,
You'll hear him still—he's snoring!
First published in Morning Post, Dec. 19, 1801. First collected 1893.
38
PONDERE NON NUMERO
Friends should be weigh'd, not told; who boasts to have won
A multitude of friends, he ne'er had one.
First published in Morning Post, Dec. 26, 1801. Included in Essays, &c., iii. 978. First collected in 1893. Adapted from Friedrich von Logan's Sinngedicht (Lessing's edition, Bk. II, No. 65).
'Freunde muss man sich erwählen
Nur nach Wägen, nicht nach Zählen.'
Cf. also Logan, Book II, No. 30.